Ethics: the essential writings

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In Ethics: The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought'from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer'and cover a broad range of topics, from the timeless questions of justice, morality, and faith to the hot-button concerns of today, such as animal rights, our duties to the environment, and gender issues. Featuring an illuminating preamble, concise introductory essays on the giants of ethical theory, and incisive chapter headnotes to the modern offerings, this Modern Library edition is a perfect single-volume reference for students, teachers, and anyone eager to engage in reflection on ethical questions, including "What is the basis for our ethical views and judgments'" Gordon Marino is professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. A recipient of the Richard J. Davis Ethics Award for excellence in writing on ethics and the law, he is the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, and editor of the Modern Library's Basic Writings of Existentialism. His essays have appeared in The New York Times. From the Trade Paperback edition.;From Plato to Kierkegaard. Euthypro, Crito, and The republic, Book II / Plato ; Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle ; The enchiridion / Epictetus ; City of God : Book XIX / St. Augustine ; Summa theologica : question XCIV / St Thomas Aquinas ; Leviathan : Part I, of man ; Part II, of commonwealth / Thomas Hobbes ; An enquiry concerning the principles of morals / David Hume ; Fundamental principles of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant ; Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill ; Parerga and paralipomena / Arthur Schopenhauer ; On the genealogy of morality / Friedrich Nietzsche ; The sickness unto death : Part II / Søren Kierkegaard -- The moderns. Anthropology and the abnormal / Ruth Benedict ; Trying out one's new sword / Mary Midgley ; Existentialism and human emotion / Jean-Paul Sartre ; From cruelty to goodness / Philip Hallie ; The disparity between intellect and character / Robert Coles ; Letter from a Birmingham jail / Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ; A theory of justice / John Rawls ; After Virtue / Alasdair MacIntyre ; Caring : a feminine approach to ethics and moral education / Nel Noddings ; Mortal questions / Thomas Nagel ; Moral saints / Susan Wolf ; A Sand County almanac : the land ethic / Aldo Leopold ; Rich and poor / Peter Singer ; The case for animal rights / Tom Regan ; Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer ; A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson ; Why abortion is moral / Don Marquis.