The Methods of Ethics
10 best books like The Methods of Ethics (Henry Sidgwick): On Liberty, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Nicomachean Ethics, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Principia Ethica (Philosophical Classics), Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, The Possibility of Altruism, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
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Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support...
Having read the text of the New Testament a fair number of times, I can see nothing that yields the conclusion that the purpose of Christianity is building theocratic nation states. A straightforward reading indicates Christianity occupies a subservient position to civil government while allowing...
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,...
| 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...
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0872206335 |
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, by Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), John M. Cooper (Editor)
Five dialogues, Plato; Introduction by A.D.Lindsay. London: J.M.Dent & sons Ltd, 1947...
| 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 | 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 | Michael Oakeshott |
| ISBN | 0865970955 |
Rationalism in Politics,
first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics.
Oakeshott criticizes...
The Possibility of Altruism
| Author | Thomas Nagel |
| ISBN | 0691020027 |
Thomas Nagel visited Loyola University during my first semester there while taking David Ozar's Survey Ethics course. Naturally, most of us from class attended his lecture up in the scenic Hussey Lounge atop Damen Hall. He was not a particularly good speaker. It was my first visit to the lounge and I...
| Author | John Leslie Mackie |
| ISBN | 0140135588 |
Recently, I decided to delve into meta-ethics, more specifically twentieth century-meta-ethics. With the fear of over-generalizing, up to the twentieth century ethics was pretty straightforward. There were: ethics rooted in metaphysics (Christianity, Kant, Spinoza, etc.); ethics rooted...
Natural Right and History
| Author | Leo Strauss |
| ISBN | 0226776948 |
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned...
