Ethics - the Philosophy of Moral Behaviour
Ethics, or "moral philosophy", is concerned with the question of the best way to live, and how to relate to other people. Among the Squashed Philosophers find:
450BC: Confucius - The Analects
355BC: Plato - The Republic
355BD: Plato - The Symposium
310BC: Aristotle - Ethics
270BC: Epicurus - Sovran Maxims
20BC: Cicero - Friendship and Old Age
180CE: Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
1515: More - Utopia
1651: Hobbes - Leviathan
1677: Spinoza - Ethics
1690: Locke - Human Understanding
1751: Hume - Human Understanding
1762: Rousseau - Social Contract
1785: Kant - Metaphysics of Morals
1789: Bentham - Morals and Legislation
1792: Wollstonecraft - Rights of Woman
1836: Emerson - Nature
1843: Mill - On Liberty
1843: Kierkegaard - Either/Or
Or for a set of ethical views often considered dangerous, try these. You've been warned!
1795: Sade - Philosophy in the Boudoir
1964: Rand - Selfishness
1886: Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
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