Morality and the Good Life An Introduction to Ethics Through Classical Sources

includes index and biblioraphy

WHAT IS ETHICS?
THE HISTORY OF ETHICS
ETHICAL QUESTIONS
What Is the Good Life?
Why Be Good?-The Problem of Justification
Why Be Rational?-The Place of Reason in Ethics
Which Is Right?-Ethical Dilemmas
ETHICAL CONCEPTS
Universality
Prudence and Morals
Happiness and the Good
Egoism and Altruism
Virtue and the Virtues
Facts and Values
Justice and Equality
Rights and Duties
ETHICAL THEORIES AND APPROACHES
Teleology
Utilitarianism
Kant and Deontology
Feminist Ethics
Social Contract Theory
Ethical Relativism
Pluralism and History: Ethics Today
1 Plato
CRITO
THE REPUBLIC
What Is Justice?: Books I, II, and IV
The Myth of the Cave: From Book VII
Study Questions
2 Aristotle
THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
The Goal of Human Activity: From Book I
Moral Virtue: From Book II
Questions about Action: From Book III
The Intellectual Virtues and the Practical Syllogism:From Book VI
Incontinence (Akrasia): From Book VII
Friendship: From Books VIII and IX
Pleasure and Happiness: From Book X
Study Questions
3 Saint Augustine
THE CITY OF GOD
The City of God: From Books XIV, XIX, and XXII
The Problem of Evil: From Books V and XIV
Study Questions
4 Thomas Hobbes
LEVIATHAN
Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions Commonly Called the Passions and Speeches by Which They Are Expressed
Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
Of the First and Second Natural Laws and of Contracts
Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth
Of the Liberty of Subjects
Study Questions
5 David Hume
TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
On Virtue and Vice in General
AN INQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS
Of the General Principles of Morals, Benevolence,and Justice: Sections I, II, and III
Why Utility Pleases: From Section V
Virtue, Approval, and Self-Love: From Section IX and Appendix II
Study Questions
6 Immanuel Kant
GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
Empirical and A Priori Ethics: Preface The Rational Basis of Morality: From Section 1 The Categorical Imperative: From Section 2 Freedom and Autonomy: From Section 3 Study Questions
7 John Stuart Mill
UTILITARIANISM
Happiness and the Summum Bonum: Chapter 1
What Utilitarianism Is: Chapter 2
The Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility: Chapter 3
The "Proof of Utilitarianism: Chapter 4
Justice and Utility: Chapter 5
Study Questions
8 Friedrich Nietzsche
THE GAY SCIENCE
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
The Natural History of Morals
What Is Noble?
ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS
"Good and Evil"; "Good and Bad"
"Guilt," "Bad Conscience," and Related Matters
TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
Morality as Anti-Nature
THE ANTICHRIST
Revaluation of All Values
THE WILL TO POWER
Study Questions
9 Albert Camus
THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS
An Absurd Reasoning
The Myth of Sisyphus (Told by Camus)
THE STRANGER
The "After Life": From Chapter 5
Study Questions
10 Jean-Paul Sartre
EXISTENTIALISM IS A HUMANISM BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
Bad Faith
Freedom and Responsibility Study Questions
11 John Rawls
A THEORY OF JUSTICE Justice as Fairness Goodness as Rationality The Sense of Justice
Study Questions