Ethics & Moral Philosophy

An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translat...

The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'hu...

This collection highlights the importance of Kants shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrast...

Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership quali...

This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism,...

This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism,...

Feminist ethics addresses how power, through gender, affects moral practice and theory. This enterprise is more important than ever before in an ag...

Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? H...

The claim that there are objective ethical truths has attracted its share of doubters. Many have thought that such truths would require an extra-et...

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the l...