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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Good and Evil | |
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| From Cruelty to Goodness | |
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| The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn | |
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| The Evil That Men Think-And Do | |
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| Facing the Extreme: The War of All Against All | |
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| Strategies for Survival | |
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| The Perils of Obedience | |
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| The Moral Insight | |
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| Billy Budd | |
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| Beyond Good and Evil | |
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| Is It All Relative? | |
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| Morality As Custom | |
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| A Defense of Moral Relativism | |
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| A Defense of Cultural Relativism | |
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| Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights | |
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| Uganda's Women: Children, Drudgery, and Pain | |
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| An Alternative to Moral Relativism | |
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| Who's to Judge? | |
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| The Objective Basis of Morality | |
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| The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule | |
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| I Have a Dream | |
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| The United Nations Charter: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Morality and Self-Interest | |
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| The Ring of Gyges | |
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| Of the State of Men without Civil Society | |
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| Of Self-Love | |
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| The Unselfishness Trap | |
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| Egoism and Moral Skepticism | |
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| The Virtue of Selfishness | |
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| Egoism, Self-Interest, and Altruism | |
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| Why Not Be a Bad Person? | |
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| Why Act Morally? | |
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| Moral Doctrines and Moral Theories | |
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| The Judeo-Christian Tradition | |
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| Morality Is Based on God's Commands | |
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| Why Morality Does Not Depend on Religion | |
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| Of Benevolence | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| A Critique of Utilitarianism | |
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| The Experience Machine | |
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| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
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| Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative | |
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| The Holocaust and Moral Philosophy | |
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| A Critique of Kantianism | |
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| Virtue | |
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| Happiness and the Virtues | |
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| Virtue and the Human Soul | |
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| The Art of Living | |
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| The World of Epictetus | |
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| Virtue or Duty? | |
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| Tradition and the Virtues | |
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| The Ethics of Virtue | |
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| Of Justice and Beneficence | |
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| The Origin of the Moral Sense | |
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| The Parable of the Sadhu | |
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| Vice | |
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| Vice | |
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| The Depths of Vice | |
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| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
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| The Hypocrites | |
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| Self-Deception | |
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| Upon Self-Deceit | |
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| Jealousy, Envy, and Spite | |
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| How Much Land Does a Man Need? A Parable on Greed | |
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| Morality and Social Policy | |
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| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
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| World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case against Singer | |
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| "For Heaven's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!" | |
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| An Almost Absolute Value in History | |
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| On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | |
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| A Defense of Abortion | |
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| Why Abortion Is Immoral | |
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| On Duties to Animals | |
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| A Moral Defense of Vegetarianism | |
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| Down on the Factory Farm | |
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| An Animal's Place | |
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| Case Against Animal Rights | |
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| The Case for Affirmative Action | |
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| What Is Wrong with Affirmative Action? | |
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| The Meaning of Life | |
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| Substance, Shadow, and Spirit | |
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| The Bhagavad Gita | |
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| My Confession | |
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| A Free Man's Worship | |
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| The Myth of Sisyphus | |
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| The Meaning of Life | |
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| Existentialism Is Humanism | |
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| Absurd Self-Fulfillment | |
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| The Human Search for Meaning | |
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| The Book of Job | |