Moral Theory Selections

Media

Blackburn, S. Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Driver, J. Consequentialism. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Gilligan, C. In A Different Voice. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982

Mill, J. S. “Utilitarianism.” In CollectedWorksofJohnStuartMill.Edited by J. M. Robson. London: Routledge, 1991.

Ross, W. D. The Right and the Good. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1930.

Shafer-Landau, R. Ethical Theory: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.

Timmons, M. Introduction to Ethical Theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Web Links

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Moral Relativism”

<https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/>

Peter Singer, “Ethics”

<http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1985----.htm>

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Aristotle’s Ethics”

<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/>

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Consequentialism”

<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/>

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “John Stuart Mill”

<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mill/>

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Kant’s Moral Philosophy”

<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/>

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics”

<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-ethics/>

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Care Ethics”

<https://www.iep.utm.edu/care-eth/>

University of California-San Diego’s Ethics Updates, “Introduction to Moral Theory”<http://ethics.sandiego.edu/theories/Intro/index.asp>

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