Free Ethics Courses

In this complete, 12-lecture video course from Harvard University, Professor Michael Sandel presents his popular course which explores difficult moral dilemmas and how we respond to them.

Taught by Jim Newton, editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Times, this course is an intensive examination of ethical and policy issues arising from interaction of media institutions and societal institutions…

Professor Tamar Gendler dives right in with the first lecture covering some of the fundamental questions of human nature which will be examined in the course.

In this award-winning course, lively Professor Joseph Hughes explores one of the oldest plots in the world: the Hero's descent into the underworld.

This course is an in-depth treatment of three important issues in Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy: the virtue of justice, the evil of the initiation of physical force, and the virtue of independence.

Comparison of ethics from a Christocentric perspective and a philosophical perspective. Relationship between Christian thought and western philosophical traditions with regard to classical and contemporary moral issues and their relation to current political and social issues.

In this introduction to ethics, we shall be considering the underpinnings of ethical thought.

An introductory series by Marianne Talbot exploring bioethical theories and their philosophical foundations.

Lecture/discussion videos from my Ethics class sections. We start with discussing Emotivism and contrasting it with a Natural Law and Virtue Ethics Perspective, then move into Virtue Ethics, Egoism, Might Makes Right, and Contractarian moral theory as depicted in Plato's dialogues.

This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach.