Primary Sources

Classic Texts in Ethics
(http://ethics.acusd.edu/books.html)

Fine collection of primary source material in ethics from Lawrence Hinman's Ethics Updates (University of San Diego)

Plato's story of the Ring of Gyges from Republic II
(http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/republic5.htm)

Benjamin Jowett translation; text from Exploring Plato's Dialogues site (sec. 5) maintained by Anthony F. Beavers and Christopher Planeaux (University of Evansville); also available from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection here

Hobbes' Leviathan
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/h68l/)

Searchable text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection

Plato's Euthyphro
(http://socrates.clarke.edu/aplg0150.htm)

Text and explanatory hyperlinks from Kent Anderson and Norm Freund's The Last Days of Socrates site (Clarke College)

Herodotus' The History of Herodotus
(http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html)

Herodotus' classic text, which includes his discussion of relativism in Book 2, chap. 38; from The Internet Classics Archive (MIT)

Maugham's Of Human Bondage
(http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/38/76/frameset.html)

Text from Bibliomania

Texts by Ayn Rand and Other Objectivists
(http://www.objectivism.addr.com/texts/index.html)

Set of links to texts collected by the Objectivism Resource Center

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
(http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/smith/wealth/index.html)

Text from McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought

Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
(http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/poltheory/bentham/ipml/index.html)

1907 Oxford edition edited by Paul Lyon (University of Texas at Austin)

Mill's Utilitarianism
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/m/m645u/)

Text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection

Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/k/k16prm/)

Thomas K. Abbot translation; text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/a8n/)

W. D. Ross translation; text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection

Confucius' The Doctrine of the Mean
(http://www.classicallibrary.org/confucius/)

Text from The Classical Library; also available from The Internet Classics Archive (MIT) here

Confucius' The Analects
(http://www.classicallibrary.org/confucius/)

Text from The Classical Library; also available from Exploring Ancient World Cultures (University of Evansville) here

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