
I spent most of 2019 and early 2020 writing about moral philosophy based on my 50 years of reading and reflection. This started as a reply to what I saw as a glaring absence of historical context and critical thinking about the philosophy of information. The work became a brief chronicle of moral philosophy from ancient times to the early 21st century and was presented as a series of blogposts on this site. This was not intended to be the last word on anything. Rather, it is a trail of breadcrumbs. I don’t attempt to hide or apologize for my foundation or conclusions. It is important to note that this was written before the COVID lockdown but that changed little for me.
The original series is tagged under “moral philosophy.” https://atworkspace.blog/?s=Moral+philosophy+
In Summer of 2021 I recorded the material with realtime edits and no post production. These were posted to my Patreon site as unlocked content and have been copied here without alteration.
Links with attribution are appreciated. My links to source references are in the original blogposts.
Ethics Part 1
Aristotle, Confucius, Lao Tze and Hillel
Ethics Part 2
Augustine, The Stoics and Buddha
Ethics Part 3
Boethius and The Middle Ages
Ethics Part 4
The Renaissance and Humanism
Ethics Part 5
The Protestant Reformation and The Copernican Revolution
Ethics Part 6
17th Century Schizoid Man
Ethics Part 7
Hobbes, Locke, The Cambridge Platonists and The Glorious Revolution
Ethics Part 8
The French Enlightenment and its Fruits
Ethics Part 9
The Birth of a Nation and Invention of the American Ethos
Ethics Part 10
Kant, Goethe and The German Enlightenment
Ethics Part 11
Utilitarianism, Positivism and Nihilism
Ethics Part 12
Hero Worship, the Welfare State and Totalitarianism
Ethics Part 13
Transcendentalism, Idealism, Pragmatism and Vedanta in The West
Ethics Part 14
Darwin, the Death of God and the Birth of AI
Ethics Part 15
Existentialism, Depth Psychology & Radicalism
Ethics Part 16A
The Frankfurt School (Critical Theory) and The Devolution of Academia
Ethics Part 16B
The Frankfurt School (Critical Theory) and The Devolution of Academia, Concluding Session
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