Approaches to ethics; representative selections from classical times to the present. Edited by W. T. Jones [and others] [print]

part 1. The classical period. Republic ; Philebus Plato Nicomachean ethics Aristotle Letter to Herodotus ; Letter to Menoeceus ; Principal doctrines Epicurus Encheridion, or Manual Epictetus Enneads Plotinus -- part 2. The Middle Ages. Scolding a monk for having abandoned the desert St. Jerome Consolation of philosophy Boethius Enchiridion ; City of God St. Augustine Monologium. On the being of God ; Cur deus homo St. Anselm Steps of humility St. Bernard of Clairvaux Summa contra gentiles ; Summa theologica St. Thomas Aquinas These are the talks of instruction ... ; About disinterest Meister Eckhart Nature of the will ; Whether only an act of will is necessarily virtuous or vicious? William of Ockham -- part 3. The early modern period. Aphorisms on the nature of man ; Prince ; Discourses Niccolo Machiavelli Bondage of the will ; Secular authority: to what extent it should be obeyed ; Freedom of a Christian Martin Luther Leviathan Thomas Hobbes Ethics Benedict Spinoza Dissertation upon the nature of virtue ; Sermons Joseh Butler Treatise of human nature ; Enquiry concerning the principles of morals David Hume Lectures on ethics ; Critique of practical reason Immanuel Kant -- part 4. The nineteenth century. Introduction to the principles of morals and legislation Jeremy Bentham Early theological writings Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel World as will and idea Arthur Schopenhauer Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill Journals: what I am to do ; Either/or Sickness unto death: a Christian psychological exposition for edification and awakening ; Concluding unscientific postscript ; Fear and trembling Soren Kierkegaard Contribution to the critique of political economy ; Alienated labour ; Private property and communism Karl Marx Methods of ethics Henry Sidgwick Sounding out idols Friedrich Nietzsche Ethical studies Francis Herbert Bradley -- part 5. The twentieth century. Civilization and its discontents Sigmund Freud Reconstruction in philosophy ; Quest for certainty ; Theory of valuation ; Reconstruction in philosophy John Dewey Does moral philosophy rest on a mistake? H.A. Prichard Principia ethica G.E. Moore General theory of value ; Realms of value Ralph Barton Perry Systematic theology ; Courage to be ; Theology of culture ; Morality and beyond Paul Tillich Existentialism is a humanism ; Being and nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre Language, truth, and logic Alfred Jules Ayer Ethics and language Charles Leslie Stevenson -- part 6. Recent developments. On grading J.O. Urmson Language of morals R.M. Hare Ethical absolutism and the ideal observer Roderick Firth Two concepts of rules John Rawls Extreme and restricted utilitarianism J.J. Smart Generalization in ethics Marcus G. Singer How to derive "ought" from "is" John R. Searle Three ways of spilling ink J.L. Austin.

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