This definitive source book presents the writings of the most important and influential moral philosophers of
the Western tradition, from Plato to John Rawls. Chronologically oriented, its well-balanced coverage presents
views without bias. The comprehensive selections give students a solid grasp of the writer�s ideas. Appropriate
for the introduction to ethic course where the instructor prefers original source writings. This text covers general
and introductory ethics, three historical periods, and over thirty individual writers. An alternate table of contents
allows for use in courses that emphasize a topical approach.
Features
This text covers general and introductory ethics, three historical periods, and over thirty individual writers.
An alternate table of contents allows for use in courses that emphasize a topical approach.
Table of Contents
PART I. THE CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS
Socrates, Euthyphro
Plato, Republic
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Epicurus, Epicurus to Menoeceus
St. Augustine, Of the Morals of the Catholic Church, The Enchiridion
St. Thomas Aquinas,Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theological
PART II. THE MODERN WORLD
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Joseph Butler, Sermons
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals Either/Or Fear and Trembling
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
F.H. Bradley, Ethical Studies
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
PART III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica
William Graham Sumner, Folkways
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein, A Lecture on Ethics
W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good
A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic
Jean-Paul Satre, Existentialism
John Rawls, Justice as Fairness
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Alisdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
Judith Jarvis Thomson, Killing and Letting Die
C. A. Campbell, In Defense of Free Will
J. M. E. McTaggart, Some Dogmas of Religion
