Reading Ethics

This text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings.

• This text encourages students to engage with ethical issues through a series of classic and contemporary readings
• Readings are accompanied by interactive commentary from the editors
• Inspires students to think about the nature of moral philosophy and to draw comparisons between different traditions
• Themes include: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity, justice and virtue, moral motivation, moral obligation, and literature as moral philosophy
• Readings range from Plato’s Republic to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice