 | Moral Scepticism and Moral Knowledge (Studies in philosophical psychology) by Renford Bambrough
Buy used from: £5.90 One of the best books on ethics that I've read. Wittgensteinian in method :clear and convincing.
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 | Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J Mackie
Buy new: £6.36 / Used from: £2.99 A good place to start even if you disagree totally, as I do.
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 | The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy used from: £2.00 Still one of the best and most sophisticated attempts at a total theory. All of Plato should be read again and again.
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 | The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £3.37 Virtues unpacked by the 'master of those who know'.
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 | Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Canto) by Bernard Williams
Buy new: £10.71 / Used from: £4.80 Despite what some say, this is a good introduction.
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 | Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams
Buy new: £13.56 / Used from: £11.49 A little more sophisticated, worth the effort.
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 | On Liberty (English Library) by John Stuart Mill
Buy used from: £0.01 A must! We all need to understand what's meant by 'the tyranny of the masses'.
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 | Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Buy new: £2.28 / Used from: £0.06 The classic statement of a moral view that has had profound influence. No matter what we may think about it.
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 | Utilitarianism: For and Against by J. J. C. Smart
Buy new: £14.67 / Used from: £9.22 Utilitarianism pro and contra.
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 | Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Iammanuel Kant
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.00 Deontological theory by one of the greatest philosophers ever.
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 | Emile: Or on Education (Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy used from: £29.00 How to bring up our children. Maybe. All of Rousseau should be read, even the confessional works. A truly troubled soul.
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 | Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception by Raimond Gaita
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £13.38 A work of great power. A challenge to both utilitarian and deontological theories.
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 | After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
Buy new: £22.33 / Used from: £15.95 Challenging.
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 | The Bible: Authorized King James Version (Oxford World's Classics)
Buy used from: £4.50 You might want to have a look at this as well.
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 | A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Buy new: £17.26 / Used from: £16.00 This is very useful.
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 | The Communist Manifesto (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £0.05 Should be read if only to disagree with.
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 | The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1 (Routledge Classics): Vol 1 by Karl Popper
Buy new: £9.55 / Used from: £5.99 Plato criticised. This is a powerful work.
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 | The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 2 (Routledge Classics S.) by Karl Popper
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £5.75 Hegel and Marx criticised. Hegel takes the most stick.
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 | Totem and Taboo (Routledge Classics) by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £4.85 Very readable. Psychoanalysis searches for the origins of ethics.
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 | On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy used from: £0.01 Just what it says on the label. All Nietzsche is worth reading: it's an experience!
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 | Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.00 Stoic wisdom.
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 | Wickedness (Routledge Classics): A Philosophical Essay by Dr Mary Midgley
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £9.58 Well written book on the nature of evil.
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 | Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £0.01 How to be a good 'neighbour'. At a price Thoreau would have been proud of.
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 | Totality and Infinity (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £10.99 Very hard. Continental ethics at its finest. The face of the other and the infinite.
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 | Otherwise Than Being, or, Beyond Essence by Emmanuel Levinas
Buy new: £12.45 / Used from: £13.77 Again very hard. Proximity, the neighbour, trauma, obsession, the third person and scepticism: pointing towards a signification otherwise than Being.
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