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).