The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics: 2024 Release ISE

Nina Rosenstand holds a traditional Magisterkonferens Degree from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her dissertation, awarded the Gold Medal of the University of Copenhagen, was on the philosophy of Henri Bergson. She is the author of The Concept of Myth (Danish: Mytebegrebet), The Human Condition: An Introduction to Philosophy of Human Nature, and The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics, as well as numerous papers and articles. She is senior professor of philosophy at San Diego Mesa College, Social Sciences Department, teaching on-campus as well as online classes. Her areas of specialization are moral philosophy, philosophy of human nature, and philosophy of fiction. She is chair of the department’s colloquium series, Social Sciences Occasional Lectures.

1 Thinking About Values
2 Learning Moral Lessons from Stories
3 Ethical Relativism 
4 Myself or Others?
5 Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism
6 Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant’s Deontology
7 Personhood, Rights, and Justice
8 Virtue Ethics from Tribal Philosophy to Socrates and Plato
9 Aristotle’s Virtue Theory: Everything in Moderation
10 Virtue Ethics and Authenticity: Contemporary Perspectives
11 Case Studies in Virtue
12 Different Gender, Different Ethics?
13 Applied Ethics: A Sampler