A Moral Theory Primer

Media

Annas, J. The Morality of Happiness. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Audi, R. The Good in the Right. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Gilligan, C. In A Different Voice. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Gregor, M. E. (trans.). Kant’s Practical Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Haakonssen, K. “Natural Law Theory.” In Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by L. C. Becker and C. B. Becker. New York: Garland, 1992.

Mackie, J. L. “Can There Be a Rights-Based Moral Theory?” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 3 (1978): 350–359.

Mill, J. S..Utilitarianism. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1979.

Ross, W. D. The Right and the Good. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1930.

Timmons, M. Introduction to Ethical Theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Web Links

C. D. Broad’s Five Types of Ethical Theory

<http://www.ditext.com/broad/ftet/ftet.html>

EpistemeLinks’ ethics page

<http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Topics.aspx?TopiCode=Ethi>

Ethics Matters links to online classic philosophy texts

<http://ethics.sandiego.edu/resources/books/books.asp>

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Ethics”

<http://www.iep.utm.edu/ethics/>

Prof. Robert Cavalier’s “Online Guide to Ethics and Philosophy”

<http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/80130/Syllabus.html>

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