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Thematic Contents | |
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Timeline | |
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Introduction | |
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The European Traditions | |
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Ancient | |
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Socrates (470/69-399 B.C.E.) | |
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Selections from Plato's Euthyphro | |
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Plato (428/27-348/47 B.C.E.) | |
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Selections from Republic, Books I, II, IV, VI, VII, IX | |
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Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) | |
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Selections from Nicomachean Ethics, Books I, II, IX | |
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Epicurus (341/2-270 B.C.E.) | |
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"Letter to Menoeceus" | |
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Epictetus (c.50-c.138) | |
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Selections from The Enchiridion | |
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Medieval | |
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Augustine (354-430) | |
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Selections from City of God, Books XII and XIX | |
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Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) | |
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Selections from Guide for the Perplexed, Part 1, Chapter 2 | |
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Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) | |
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Selections from Summa Theologica, Volume 2, Part I | |
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Modern | |
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David Hume (1711-1776) | |
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Selections from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Sections I, II, III and V | |
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) | |
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Selections from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, Sections 1 and 2 | |
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Nineteenth Century | |
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) | |
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Selections from "What Utilitarianism Is" | |
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) | |
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Selections from Either/Or and from Fear and Trembling | |
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) | |
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Selections from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, First and Third Manuscripts | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | |
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Selections from "What Is Noble?" | |
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Twentieth Century | |
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G. E. Moore (1873-1958) | |
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Selections from "The Subject-Matter of Ethics" | |
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Martin Buber (1878-1965) | |
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Selections from I and Thou, First, Second and Third Parts | |
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Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) | |
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Selections from "Anthropology and the Abnormal" | |
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A. J. Ayer (1910-1989) | |
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Selections from "Critique of Ethics and Theology" | |
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Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) | |
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Selections from Existentialism and Human Emotions | |
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John Rawls (1921- ) | |
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Selections from A Theory of Justice | |
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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) | |
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Selections from "The Face" and "Responsibility for the Other" | |
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Alasdair McIntyre (1929- ) | |
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Selections from "The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition" | |
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The Asian Traditions | |
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Lao Tzu (Seventh century B.C.E.?) | |
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Selections from Tao Teh Ching | |
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The Bhagavad Gita (Sixth century B.C.E.?) | |
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Selections from the Bhagavad Gita, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 18 | |
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The Buddha (563-483 B.C.E.) | |
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Selections from "The First Sermon" and "Synopsis of Truth" | |
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Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) | |
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Selections from the Analects, Books I, II, IV, VII, VIII, XII, XIV, XV, and XX | |
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Mencius (371-289 B.C.E.) | |
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Selections from The Book of Mencius | |
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Hsun Tzu (c.310-210 B.C.E.) | |
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Selections from "The Nature of Man Is Evil" | |
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The Dhammapada (Third century B.C.E.) | |
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Selections from the Dhammapada | |
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Santideva (685-763) | |
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Selections from the Bodhicaryavatara, Chapters 1, 3, 8, and 10 | |
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Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) | |
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"The Ways of Mysticism" | |
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Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) | |
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Selections from Gandhi on Non-Violence, Sections 1 and 2 | |
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Thich Nhat Hanh (1926- ) | |
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Selections from "The Sun in My Heart" | |
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Contemporary Cultural Perspectives | |
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African | |
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Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) | |
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Selections from "Consciencism" | |
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Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2001) | |
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Selections from "Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century" | |
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Paul Mbuya Akoko (c.1891-1981) | |
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Selections from Henry Odera Oruka's Sage Philosophy | |
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Oruka Rang'inya (1900-1979) | |
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Selections from Henry Odera Oruka's Sage Philosophy | |
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African-American | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) | |
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Selections from "The Development of a People" | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) | |
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Selections from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" | |
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Malcolm X (1925-1965) | |
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Selections from "The Black Revolution" | |
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Angela Davis (1944- ) | |
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Selections from "Radical Perspectives on Empowerment for Afro-American Women: Lessons for the 1980s" | |
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Cornel West (1953- ) | |
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Selections from "The Pitfalls of Racial Reasoning" | |
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Latin American and Caribbean | |
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Aime Cesaire (1913- ) | |
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Selections from "Discourse on Colonialism" | |
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Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) | |
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Selections from "Racism and Culture" | |
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Paulo Freire (1921- ) | |
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Selections from Pedagogy of the Oppressed | |
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Enrique Dussel (1935- ) | |
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Selections from "Prevailing Social Morality: The Babylon Principle" | |
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Native American | |
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Black Elk (1863-1950) | |
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"The Offering of the Pipe" | |
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Contemporary Feminist Philosophers | |
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) | |
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Selections from The Second Sex, "Introduction" | |
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Carol Gilligan (1936- ) | |
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Selections from "In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality" | |
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Mary Daly (1928- ) | |
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Selections from "The Metapatriarchal Journey of Exorcism and Ecstasy" | |
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Luce Irigaray (1930- ) | |
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Selections from "An Ethics of Sexual Difference" | |
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Maria Lugones (1944- ) and Elizabeth Spelman (1945- ) | |
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Selections from "Have We Got a Theory for You!: Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism, and the Demand for a 'Woman's Voice'" | |
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Nel Noddings (1929- ) | |
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Selections from Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, "Introduction" | |
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Annette Baier (1929- ) | |
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Selections from "What Do Women Want in a Moral Theory?" | |
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Bell Hooks (1952- ) | |
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Selections from "Feminism: A Transformational Politic" | |
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Alison Jaggar (1942- ) | |
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Selections from "Feminist Ethics: Projects, Problems, Prospects" | |
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Sarah Lucia Hoagland (1945- ) | |
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Selections from "Why Lesbian Ethics?" | |
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Sara Ruddick (1935- ) | |
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Selections from "From Maternal Thinking to Peace Politics" | |
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Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936- ) | |
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Selections from "Ecofeminism: Symbolic and Social Connections of the Oppression of Women and the Domination of Nature" | |
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Index | |