How to Use This BookIntroduction: What Is Ethics1. PLATO: Crito (complete);The Republic: What is Justice, The Myth of the Cave2. ARISTOTLE: The Nicomachean Ethics: The Goal of Human Activity, Moral Virtue, Questions about Action, The Intellectual Virtues and the Practical Syllogism, Incontinence (Akrasia), Friendship, Pleasure and Happiness3. SAINT AUGUSTINE: The City of God: The Two Cities, No Peace of Mind in This Life, What the Righteous Wish For, Hell upon Earth, The Blessings of This Life, The City of God, The Problem of Evil4. THOMAS HOBBES: Leviathan: On the Passions, On the Natural Condition of Mankind, On the First and Second Natural Laws, On the Causes of a Commonwealth, On the Liberty of Subjects5. DAVID HUME: Treatise of Human Nature: Of Virtue and Vice in General, Moral Distinctions Derived from a Moral Sense; An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: Of the General Principles of Morals, Of Benevolence, Of Justice, Why Utility Pleases, Virtue Approval and Self-Love, Of Self-Love6. IMMANUEL KANT: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: Empirical and A Priori Ethics, The Rational Basis of Morality, The Categorical Imperative, Freedom and Autonomy7. JOHN STUART MILL: Utilitarianism: Happiness and the Summum Bonum, What Utilitarianism Is, The Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility, The "Proof" of Utilitarianism, Justice and Utility8. FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE: The Gay Science (excerpts); Thus Spoke Zarathustra (excerpts); Beyond Good and Evil: The Natural History of Morals, What Is Noble?; On the Genealogy of Morals: Good and Evil and Good and Bad, Guilt Bad Conscience and Related Matters; Twilight of the Idols: Morality as Anti-Nature; The Antichrist: Revaluation of All Values; The Will to Power: Whose Will to Power Is Morality?, The Tendency of Moral Evolution9. ALBERT CAMUS: The Myth of Sisyphus: An Absurd Reasoning; The Stranger: The "After Life."10. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: Existentialism is a Humanism (excerpt); Being and Nothingness: Bad Faith, Freedom and Responsibility11. JOHN RAWLS: A Theory of Justice: Justice as Fairness, Goodness as Rationality, The Sense of JusticeGlossary
