Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books
A Cross-Cultural Anthology of Virtue, Duty, Self-Mastery, Social Justice, and Moral PhilosophyBy Booker T. Washington, Richard Baxter, James Harold Romain, Cora May Williams, John Hamilton Moore, Aristotle, John H. Stapleton, Franz Brentano, Margaret Slattery, G. E. Moore, T. De Witt Talmage, Bernard Mandeville, William De Witt Hyde, Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby, J. M. Judy, Thomas Fowler, M. Valentine, John Dewey, W. R. Sorley, Kenneth Ingram, S. A. D. Tissot, Robert Chenault Givler, James Hayden Tufts, Goldwin Smith, Mabel Anne McKee, Malcolm Guthrie, Maurice Francis Egan, Alfred Russel Wallace, S. M. I. Henry, Rudolf Eucken, Horatio Robinson Storer, Edward Abbott Sir Parry, Epictetus, Emil Edward Kusel, Stephen S. Wise, H. G. Wells, John Bunyan, George Horace Lorimer, Oliver Optic, Horatio Jr. Alger, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Plutarch, Arthur Christopher Benson, Benedictus de Spinoza, Felix Adler, Iamblichus, W. R. Washington Sullivan, Laurence Housman, Upton Sinclair
Length382h 22m
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Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books assembles a capacious library of moral inquiry, bringing philosophical argument, religious meditation, social criticism, self-culture, political reflection, and popular instruction into sustained conversation. Its range extends from classical accounts of virtue and discipline to modern discussions of conscience, education, reform, labor, peace, and public responsibility. Stoic maxims, devotional prose, treatises on moral philosophy, and narratives of social advancement together reveal ethics not as an abstract system alone, but as a practice shaped by institutions, faith, character, and historical change. The contributors form an unusually broad intellectual genealogy: ancient Greek and Roman thinkers stand beside Christian moralists, Enlightenment and Victorian philosophers, American educators, social reformers, antiwar advocates, and critics of economic inequality. Figures associated with pragmatism, idealism, utilitarian debate, spiritual humanism, and social reform collectively illuminate the shifting vocabulary of moral life. Their differing cultural locations and rhetorical purposes make the volume a record of ethical thought as both philosophical tradition and civic intervention. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a comparative introduction to moral ideas across periods and genres. It invites students, scholars, and general readers to test competing claims about virtue, freedom, obligation, happiness, and justice, while appreciating the dialogue produced by their juxtaposition. Its breadth makes it an instructive resource for studying how ethical reflection addresses private conduct and collective life alike.
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GenrePhilosophy, Literary Classics
Length382 hrs 22 mins
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Table of contents
1The Ethics of Aristotle
2INTRODUCTION
3BOOK II
4BOOK IV
5BOOK V
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6BOOK VI
7BOOK VIII
8BOOK IX
9X (pt. 1)
10X (pt. 2)
11The Works of Plutarch: Essays and Miscellanies
12The Works of Plutarch: Essays and Miscellanies
13PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
14THAT A PHILOSOPHER OUGHT CHIEFLY TO CONVERSE WITH GREAT MEN.
15CHAPTER IV. HOW WAS THIS WORLD COMPOSED IN THAT ORDER AND AFTER THAT MANNER IT IS?
16CHAPTER XXX. OF NATURE.
17CHAPTER XII. OF THE INCLINATION OF THE EARTH.
18BOOK 1.
19BOOK II.
20BOOK III
21BOOK IV.
22BOOK V.
23BOOK VI.
24BOOK VIII.
25BOOK IX
26COMMON CONCEPTIONS AGAINST THE STOICS.
27CONTRADICTIONS OF THE STOICS.
28THE EATING OF FLESH.
29AGAINST COLOTES, THE DISCIPLE AND FAVORITE OF EPICURUS.
30PLATONIC QUESTIONS.
31LITERARY ESSAYS. (pt. 1)
32LITERARY ESSAYS. (pt. 2)
33THE BANQUET OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN. (pt. 1)
34THE BANQUET OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN. (pt. 2)
35ABSTRACT OF A COMPARISON BETWEEN ARISTOPHANE AND MENANDER
36Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life
37Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life
38INTRODUCTION.
39THE LIFE, &c. (pt. 1)
40THE LIFE, &c. (pt. 2)
41FRAGMENTS OF THE ETHICAL WRITINGS OF CERTAIN PYTHAGOREANS.
42FROM THEAGES, IN HIS TREATISE ON THE VIRTUES.
43ADDITIONAL NOTES.
44Footnote
45The Philosophy of Spinoza
46PREFACE
47FIRST PART
48CHAPTER II
49CHAPTER IV
50CHAPTER VI
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