| The Philosophical Journey, 2/e William Lawhead,
The University of Mississippi
The Search for Ethical Values
Primary SourcesClassic 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) |
| | | 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 |
| | | Mill's Utilitarianism
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/m/m645u/)
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 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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