Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
10 best books like Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (John Leslie Mackie): Beyond Good and Evil, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, A Treatise of Human Nature, The Nicomachean Ethics, Principia Ethica (Philosophical Classics), Essays and Aphorisms, Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding / Concerning the Principles of Morals, Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, The Methods of Ethics
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects...
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 0099461099 |
It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521626951 |
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
A Treatise of Human Nature
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 1406927554 |
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140449493 |
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...
| Author | G.E. Moore |
| ISBN | 0486437523 |
Back at the dawn of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell was telling folks to smarten up and learn to think analytically. Well, the general population thought nothing much about the kerfuffle that he was making at Oxbridge...
But a young fellow philosopher decided he might as well make...
| Author | Arthur Schopenhauer |
| ISBN | 0140442278 |
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women and many other themes is taken...
Empiricism in its purest distillation may be anathema to human nature, but the questions Hume raises regarding our ability to understand – and our claim to have knowledge of – absolute certainties, nevertheless form a basis why we seek to understand, and ultimately why we choose to believe we understand....
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0865970564 |
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons.
Eugene...
| Author | Henry Sidgwick |
| ISBN | 0915145286 |
This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.
From the forward by John Rawls:
In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) has an important...
Language, Truth, and Logic
| Author | A.J. Ayer |
| ISBN | 0486200108 |
Classic introduction to objectives & methods of schools of empiricism & linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth &...
