Over the years, the A level syllabi have covered various topics in ethics. The current (2017) AQA Philosophy syllabus covers utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, Aristotelian virtue ethics, metaethics and various issues in practical ethics. These topics are all discussed in handouts available from the Routledge companion website for A level philosophy. My writings on topics in ethics collected here are supplementary to that collection. Within each section, they are arranged roughly by theme.
Normative and metaethical relativism and absolutism
A Relative Defence
Cognitivism and noncognitivism: Developments
Hume on reason and emotion
How can we tell right from wrong?
Morality as a social contract
Self-interest and morality
Morality as based on reason
Aristotle’s ethics: Core concepts
Plato and Aristotle on well-being
Plato and Aristotle on acquiring ethical knowledge
Aristotle on pleasure
Psychoanalysis, emotions and living a good life
Love, reality and psychoanalysis