Classical and modern utilitarianism

A debate on whether citizens follow the law because of their good nature, or because they fear retribution. 

An examination of Kant's teachings on morality. 

Is it better to be a happy pig or a sad Socrates? John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is the topic of this episode of Philosophy: The Classics. 

A discussion of the history and philosophical significance of scholasticism from medieval times to early modernity, and even today.

Something happened to the human mind around the birth of modernity: the divorce of reality and the symbol. Once unified in eucharist, the symbolic and the real are now separate spheres of the human mind, and while it initially seemed that art and science might benefit by this sep ...  Show more

Do you want to see the world as it is, or as it ought to be? This difficult question is at the heart of the millennia-old debate over morality and art. Pulling back the camera to ask how we got to our current dysfunction, Spencer moves from Homer and Isaiah to Nabokov and Matthew ...  Show more