Philosophy: Ethics

Brief essays on issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness.

Selections from 30 of the most influential moral philosophers in Western thought.

The standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics.

Sandel shows how a grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions.

Descriptions of some of the most famous bioethics cases and their issues.

Narratives of superheroes that wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways.

Jonathan B. Wight provides an overview of the role that ethical considerations play in economic debates.

Examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination.

Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being?

Focuses on the influential work of Hume and Nietzsche; on their philosophies and their impact on the development of virtue ethics.

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change.

Torbjorn Tannsjo presents 7 radically different moral theories.