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Global Ethics Solutions
Employee Ethical Decision-Making Skills - Connecting Character
This is the second video in the powerful Ethical Decision-Making series that goes beneath the surface and connects character to workplace ethics and compliance issues. Topics include understanding your moral conscience, moral relativism,...
Curated Video
The Sheep and the Wolves: Nietzsche's View on Biological Makeup and Moral Codes
This video explores Nietzsche's idea that all of organic nature is divided into sheep and wolves, and how our biological makeup dictates our moral code. It discusses the concern of an inversion of moral values where the traits of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
What Money Can't Buy Trailer (2018)
What Money Can’t Buy is a six-part series exploring the role of money and morals in today’s world.Should you be able to sell your kidney? Should we auction off the right to immigrate? What about paying people to vote? Is there anything...
History Hit
How Christianity Shapes Our Morality: Christian beliefs and values
Is it possible to hold on to morality without beliefs? What two core Christian teachings did the Nazis set out to change?<br/>
How Christianity Shapes Our Morality, Part 6
How Christianity Shapes Our Morality, Part 6
Curated Video
Nietzsche: Master and Slaves
This video explores Nietzsche's explanation for how ethics develop and the consequences for master types living in a world dominated by the morality of a slave. It delves into the origins of slave morality and how it becomes part of a...
Curated Video
Kohlberg’s Six Stages of Moral Development
This video explores Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which proposes that our moral reasoning progresses through six stages. Using a hypothetical schoolyard fight and the famous Heinz dilemma, the video explains how...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is morality about thinking or feeling?
We think empathising with others is the route to a better world. But studies show that empathy encourages us to help one named child over ten anonymous others. Is morality strangely not about empathy at all? Does the moral way to act...
Global Ethics Solutions
Legislating Morality - Personal and Legal Morality at Work
In our society, we have rules and laws in place that regulate unfair business practices and other unlawful behaviors. But when it comes to our personal moral choices, there are no rules and it is left up to us not to cross ethical...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Developmental Psychology: Piaget’s Stages
Developmental psychology studies how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors emerge and change from infancy through to adulthood. In this brief introduction we will focus on Piaget's stages,and some of the methods researchers use to study...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Paul Bloom - Against Empathy The Case for Rational Compassion
We often think that empathy, our capacity "to feel someone's pain," is the ultimate source of goodness. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues psychology professor Paul Bloom. Scientific studies show that empathy is a capricious...
Global Ethics Solutions
Ethics in the Workplace - Part 2: The Work Ethic and Ethics at Work
How does the work ethics translate to ethics at work? This section of the course explores the issue of the work ethic and the need for moral and ethical codes at work.
Global Ethics Solutions
Ethical Decision-Making Skills: Connecting Character (Section 2)
This is the second video in the powerful Ethical Decision-Making series that goes beneath the surface and connects character to workplace ethics and compliance issues. Topics include understanding your moral conscience, moral relativism,...
The School of Life
Political Theory - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Are politicians destined to be corrupt, or is there hope for morality in the political world? Use the video to teach pupils Rousseau's theories behind corruption in Western civilization. The visuals help to further enhance understanding.
Crash Course
Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater: Crash Course Theater #9
The ninth video in the Crash Course Theatre series focuses on how two women brought theater back into the Christian world. Canoness Hrotsvitha, the first female playwright and Hildegard of Bingen, a nun who composed liturgical dramas,...
PBS
Frameworks for Addressing Ethical Issues
Before launching into a discussion of ethics, it's essential that common ground is established so that all participants are talking the same language. A series of five videos provides definitions and examples of the terms key to the...
PBS
Overview for Approaching Ethical Issues
Discussing ethical issues can be problematic. Before beginning any discussion of ethical issues and biases, show this series of videos that lays the groundwork by providing an overview of the terminology needed and examples of the terms...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding?
Lord of the Flies, William Golding's tale of English schoolboys who have crashed and are stranded on a remote island, reflects Golding's view of just how thin the veneer of civilized behavior is. The narrator of a short video argues for...
PBS
Allison Williams Explains Her Love for Frankenstein's Monster
Ah, but who is the real monster in Frankenstein? Actress Allison Williams shares her reasoning for why Mary Shelly's horror story should be included in The Great American Read series.
TED-Ed
What “Machiavellian” Really Means
Is Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince a directive to autocrats to rule by any means necessary, or a warning about the ways free citizens can be dominated by rulers? A short video suggests that Machiavelli's famous work might have been...
Storynory
Four Aesop Fables
Listen and enjoy as an engaging narrator reads four of Aesop's fables in a 13-minute audiobook. Fables include "The Rat and the Elephant," "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The Fox and the Crow," and "The Little Mouse."
Macat
An Introduction to Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
When you look at the word around you, it can be difficult to believe in the benefits of living a virtuous life. A video summary of Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason addresses those benefits as part of a...
Macat
An Introduction to Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners
During The Holocaust, were Germans just following orders or did they truly believe they should eradicate the Jewish people? Part of a larger playlist covering ideas from all over the world, a video summary of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's...
Macat
An Introduction to Elizabeth Anscombe’s Modern Moral Philosophy
Does moral obligation only make sense in the presence of divine authority? A video summary of "Modern Moral Philosophy" by Elizabeth Anscombe, part of a larger playlist about the world's greatest ideas, provides an overview of a newer...
Macat
An Introduction to Gottfredson and Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime
Parents who fail to discipline their children may be raising criminals. A video summary of A General Theory of Crime by Gottfredson and Hirschi, part of a larger playlist on the world's greatest ideas, presents the notion that...