Ethics

Ethics Updates [Internet Guide], maintained by Lawrence M. Hinman

Mortimer J. Adler

  • A Dialectic of Morals, 1941.

    Kurt Baier

  • The Moral Point of View (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1958).

    Lawrence Becker

  • (ed.) Encyclopedia of Ethics (New York: Garland Press, 1992).

    Brand Blanshard

  • Reason and Goodness (George Allen and Unwin, 1961).

    Vernon Bourke, S.J.

  • A History of Ethics (Garden City, New Jersey: Doubleday, 1968)

    F. H. Bradley

  • Ethical Studies (1927).

    Richard Brandt

  • Ethical Theory (Prentice-Hall, 1961).
  • A Theory of the Good and Right, 1979.

    C. D. Broad

  • Five Types of Ethical Theory (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1930).
  • (David Cheney, ed.) Broad's Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy (New York: Humanities Press, 1971).
  • Ethics, 1985.

    Mario Augusto Bunge

  • Ethics: The Good and the Right (Treatise on basic philosophy, v. 8.) (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989).

    Joseph Butler

  • Fifteen Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726; 2d ed., 1729).
  • Dissertation 2, Of the Nature of Virtue (appendix to Analogy of Religion (1736).

    Michael Cronin

  • The Science of Ethics, 2 vols. (1922).

    Eric D'Arcy

  • Concience and Its Right to Freedom (1962).
  • Human Acts (The Clarendon Press, 1963).

    A. C. Ewing Ethics (1953).

    L. T. Hobhouse

  • The Rational Good (1921).
  • The Elements of Social Justice (1922).

    Austin Duncan-Jones

  • Butler's Moral Philosophy (Penguin, 1952).

    Austin Fagothey, S.J.

  • Right and Reason: Ethics in Theory and Practice, 5th ed. (Saint Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1972).

    William K. Frankena

  • Ethics, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall Press, 1973).

    Peter A. French

  • The Scope of Morality (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979).

    D. Gauthier

  • Practical Reasoning (Oxford University Press, 1963).

    E. A. Gellner

  • "Ethics and Logic," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society LV (1954-1955): 157-178.

    Harry J. Gensler

  • Formal Ethics (Routledge, 1996).
  • Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1998).

    Bernard Gert

  • Morality: A New Justification of Moral Rules (New York: Oxford, 1988).
  • Morality : Its Nature and Justification (Oxford Univ Press, 1998).

    Alan Gewirth

  • Reason and Morality (University of Chicago Press, 1978)

    Richard M. Hare

  • The Language of Morals (Reprint, Clarendon Press, 1991).
  • Freedom and Reason (Oxford Univ. Press, 1963).
  • Essays in Ethical Theory (Reprint, Oxford Univ Press, 1993).
  • Sorting Out Ethics (Clarendon Press, 1998).

    John Hospers

  • Human Conduct (1961).

    W. D. Hunter

  • Modern Moral Philosophy (Anchor Books, 1970).

    David Hume

  • Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Open Court Pub. Co., 1966)

    Shelly Kagan

  • The Limits of Morality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
  • Normative Ethics (Westview, 1997).

    Immanuel Kant

  • Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785).
  • Critique of Practical Reason (1788).
  • Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals (1797).

    Clarence Irving Lewis

  • Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (1946).
  • Values and Imperatives: Studies in Ethics (Stanford University Press, 1969).

    Alasdair MacIntyre

  • A Short History of Ethics (New York: Macmillan, 1966).

    J. L. Mackie

  • "A Refutation of Morals," Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy 24 (1946).
  • Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977; reprint Viking Press, 1991)

    David McNaughton

  • Moral Vision: An Introduction to Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988).

    G. E. Moore

  • Principia Ethica (1903; Prometheus Books, 1988).
  • Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1912).
  • "The Nature of Moral Philosophy," in G. E. Moore, Philosophical Studies (London, 1922).

    Thomas Nagel

  • Equality and Partiality (New York: Oxford, 1991).

    P. H. Nowell-Smith

  • Ethics (Penguin Books, 1954).

    Martha Nussbaum

  • The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).

    Frederick A. Olafson

  • Principles and Persons: An Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967).
  • Ethics and Twentieth Century Thought (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1973).

    Robert Olson

  • The Morality of Self-Interest (1965).

    H. J. Paton

  • The Categorical Imperative (1948).

    F. Paulsen

  • System der Ethik (1913).

    Louis Pojman

  • (ed.) Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 2nd edition (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1995).
  • Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, 2nd edition (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1994).

    H. A. Prichard

  • Moral Obligation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949).

    A. N. Prior

  • Logic and the Basis of Ethics (Oxford University Press, 1949).

    James Rachels

  • The Elements of Moral Philosophy, 2nd. ed. (New York: Random House, 1992).

    Ayn Rand

  • The Virtue of Selfishness (1964).

    D. D. Raphael

  • Moral Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981).

    H. Rashdall

  • The Theory of Good and Evil (1924).

    Tom Regan

  • (ed.) Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, 3rd edition (Random House, 1993).

    Edward Regis Jr.

  • (ed.) Gewirth's Ethical Rationalism (University of Chicago Press, 1984).

    W. D. Ross

  • The Right and the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930).
  • The Foundations of Ethics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939).

    J. Rueff

  • From the Physical to the Social Sciences (1929).

    J. B. Schneewind

  • Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, 2 volumes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
  • The Invention of Autonomy : A History of Modern Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

    Moritz Schlick

  • Problems of Ethics (1939).

    Wilfrid Sellars

  • (and John Hospers, eds.) Readings in Ethical Theory (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952).
  • Form and Content in Ethical Theory, The Lindley Lecture for 1967 (Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, 1967).
  • "Science and Ethics," in Philosophical Perspectives (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1967).

    Henry Sidgwick

  • Methods of Ethics (1874; 7th ed., 1907).

    Yves Simon

  • The Tradition of Natural Law (1965).

    Peter Singer

  • (ed.)A Companion to Ethics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991).

    Christina Hoff Sommers

  • (and Fred Sommers, eds.) Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life: Introductory Readings in Ethics, 4th Edition (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1996).
  • Right and Wrong : Basic Readings in Ethics (Harcourt Brace, 1997).

    H. Spencer

  • The Principles of Ethics (1897).

    Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza

  • Ethics (1677).

    L. Stephen

  • The Science of Ethics (1882).

    James Sterba

  • Morality in Practice, 5th ed. (Wadsworth, 1997).

    C. L. Stevenson

  • Ethics and Language (Yale University Press, 1944).

    Paul Taylor

  • Normative Discourse (Prentice-Hall, 1961).
  • "On Taking the Moral Point of View," Midwest Studies in Philosophy 3 (1978): 35-61.

    F. Thilly

  • Introduction to Ethics (1900).

    Stephen Toulmin

  • Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics (1950).

    Michael Wagner

  • An Historical Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1990)

    Gerald Wallace

  • The Definition of Morality (London: Metheun, 1970).

    G. J. Warnock

  • Contemporary Moral Philosophy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967).

    Mary Warnock

  • Ethics Since 1900, Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966).

    Jeffrey Wattles

  • The Golden Rule (Oxford University Press, 1996)

    Edward Westermarck The Origin and Development of Moral Ideas, 2 vols. (1906-1908).

  • Ethical Relativity (Harcourt, 1932).

    Georg Henrik von Wright The Varieties of Goodness (1963).