Course Five · The Complete Micro-Course
The entire introductory ethics canon, rebuilt as 210 numbered videos — each one a single idea, each idea traced to the philosopher and the primary text that made it. Start at the beginning, or start anywhere and follow the numbers back.
How the course works
Ethics goes wrong in a particular way: an argument about euthanasia or economic justice collapses into people talking past each other, because somewhere upstream a distinction never got made. This course is built so the way back is always visible. When an objection doesn’t land, you don’t rewatch a lecture. You follow the number back to the distinction it depends on.
Three kinds of video: atoms (one theory, objection, or distinction, about twenty seconds), procedures (one method, shown step by step — putting an argument in standard form, testing a maxim), and capstones (one moral case run through several theories at once). On contested applied questions the course presents the standard arguments on each side and declares no verdict — the reasoning is the lesson.
The whole map
New videos post daily until the course is complete. Live ones link straight to the short; the rest are on their way.
The receipts
Behind the course sits a reference document in which every theory, objection, and reply is traced to its source — the primary texts (Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Rawls, Nozick, Gilligan, Noddings) and the standard texts where interpretation matters. Where traditions genuinely differ, the course states which one it follows and why, so it reads as a decision rather than an error. I taught Introduction to Ethics and Values for six years as an adjunct professor — and the receipts are still right there to catch me with. I’d rather be corrected than comfortable.
Spot an error? Tell me the video number and the claim — corrections get made in the open.
Follow along
The course releases in order on YouTube — one idea at a time until all 210 are live. Subscribe to catch each one, or leave your email for an occasional note when a course finishes.
A note when a course finishes. Nothing else.