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Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill

Author: Frederick Rosen

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHI101

Topics: Utilitarianism, Classical Utilitarianism, utility, morality, justice, Epicurus, Epicurean tradition, ancient Epicureanism, Gassendi, modern Epicureanism, Theory of Moral Sentiments, Scottish Enlightenment, Bentham’s theory of proportion, hedonism, liberty, Negative liberty

Introduction to Ethics

Author: AP Ipadeola

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHI203

Topics: Ethics, morality, moral issues, Branches of Ethics, normative ethics, applied ethics, meta-ethics, Ethical Relativism, Ethical Theory, Ethical Absolutism, Moral Responsibility, Moral Excusability, Ethical Utilitarianism, Determinism, Ethical Utilitarianism, Ethical Utilitarianism, Psychological Egoism, Moral Egoism, Ethical Egoism, Feminist Ethics

Meta-ethics and normative ethics

Author: HJ McCloskey

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHI203

Topics: Meta-ethics, normative ethics, morality, theistic ethics, Thomistic Natural Law Ethics, Naturalistic Theories, Naturalistic Fallacy, Non-cognitivist meta-ethical theories, Nowell-Smith's Ethics, moral priniciples, Moral Perplexity, moral advice, Intuitionism, Tolerance, Multiple Intuitions, ethical pluralism, intrinsic goods, pleasure, happiness, knowledge, rationality, rational belief, beauty, Aesthetic Excellence, moral goodness, Self-perfection, Act Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism, Utilitarianism, Kantian Theory, Prima Facie

Ethics As Social Science

Author: Leland Yeager

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHI312

Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Social Cooperation, indirect utilitarianism, utilitarianism, utilitarianism immoral, Altruism, self-interest, Duty, universalizability, Law, government, policy, Libertarianism, classical liberalism

Theories of Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

Author: Philippa Foot

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL204

Topics: Ethics theories, Naturalistic fallacy, good, evil, moral belief, utilitarianism, extreme utilitarianism, restricted utilitarianism

History of economic thought

Author: EK Hunt, Mark Lautzenheiser

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Administration, Social and Management science

Course Code: ECN307

Topics: Economic thought history, capitalism, Precapitalist European Economy, Adam smith, Smith's Value Theory, class conflict, social harmony, Thomas Robert Malthus, population theory, economics of exchange, Gluts theory, price determination, Rationalistic Subjectivism, market socialism, Hodgkin's Utilitarianism, Mill's Utilitarianism, Karl Max, commodity production, commodity circulation, capitalist circulation, labor power, primitive accumulation, capitalist accumulation, economic concentration, marginal utility, Bohm-Bawerk's Measure of Capital, Thorstein Veblen, Hobson's Theory of Capitalist Imperialism, Lenin's Theory of Capitalist Imperialism, military economy, debt economy, Post-Keynesian Economics, Sraffian Price Theory

An introduction to ethics

Author: Deigh John

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL204

Topics: ethics, Socrates, Thrasymachus, ethical theory, deontology, Ethical theories, moral ideals, egoism, happiness, Psychological egoism, Psychological hedonism, Hobbesian program, Eudaimonism, Plato's ethics, Rationalism, naturalism, Aristotle's naturalism, Utilitarianism, Rule utilitarianism, Moral law, Divine command theory, Rational intuitionism, Personal autonomy, Existentialist ethics, excesses of existentialism, Practical reason, Meta-ethics, Meta-ethical disputes, Hume's meta-ethics, freedom, reason

An Introduction to Ethics

Author: Kevin Gibson

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL242

Topics: Ethics, moral foundations, Descriptive Ethics, Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Egoism, Hedonism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rand, strategic ethics game theory, Relativism, Absolutism, Moral Imperialism, moral imagination, Utilitarianism, Contemporary Utilitarianism, Deontology, Virtue-Based Ethics, Nonhuman Rights, Justice, Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice, Distributive Justice, Libertarianism, Egalitarianism, Essentialism, Equality, Ethics of Care, Separatist Feminism, Modernist Ethics, Habermas, Foucault, Rorty, Non-Western ethics, Confucianism, Tetsuro Watsuji, Buddhism, Taoism, Africana ethics

An Outline of the History of Economic Thought, 2nd edition

Author: Ernesto Screpanti, Stefano Zamagni, David Field, Lynn Kirby

School: Edo University

Department: Administration, Social and Management science

Course Code: ECO317

Topics: political economy, mercantilism, bullionism, mercantilist commercial theories, classical political economy, Laissez-Faire revolution, Adam Smith, Smithian orthodoxy, Socialist Economic Thought, Socialist Economic Theories, Marx’s Economic Theory, Utilitarianism, Marginalist Revolution, General Economic Equilibrium, welfare economics, Contemporary Macroeconomic Theories, The New Keynesian Macroeconomics, Game theory, Radical Political Economy

Introduction to Western Philosophy

Author: Barry Vaughan

School: University of Calabar

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHIL101

Topics: Western Philosophy, Plato, Epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, Nicomachean Ethics, Utilitarianism

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