Values course

I'm almost done with a terrific course available over at the Teaching Company. In particular, Patrick Grim's Questions of Value has absolutely knocked my sox off. Here are the lecture titles:

1. Questions of Value
2. Facts and Values
3. Lives to Envy, Lives to Admire
4. Foundations of Ethics—Theories of the Good
5. Foundations of Ethics—Theories of the Right
6. Thoughts on Religion and Values
7. Life's Priorities
8. The Cash Value of a Life
9. How Do We Know Right from Wrong?
10. Cultures and Values—Questions of Relativism
11. Cultures and Values—Hopi, Navajo, and Ik
12. Evolution, Ethics, and Game Theory
13. The Objective Side of Value
14. Better Off Dead
15. A Picture of Justice
16. Life's Horrors
17. A Genealogy of My Morals
18. Theories of Punishment
19. Choice and Chance
20. Free Will and Determinism
21. Images of Immortality
22. Ethical Knowledge, Rationality, and Rules
23. Moralities in Conflict and in Change
24. Summing Up

Lecture 10 on relativism was quite nice in separating different flavors of relativism from one another, and lecture 6 on religion was well argued even if I didn't agree with his conclusions.

Elsewhere, I've raved about Teaching Company courses (see here, here, here, and here), but this one is a keeper. If you haven't tried these courses, start with Questions of Value.