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A branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice, etc.
- Ethics (Nicomachean Ethics) by Aristotle.
- On Benefits (De Beneficiis), 62 AD by Seneca, 1887 translation by Aubrey Stewart
- Letter 75. On the diseases of the soul, 1st century by Seneca to Lucilius, 1920 translation by Richard Mott Gummere
- Treatise on Habits (Summa Theologica), circa 1274 by Thomas Aquinas, 1915 translation by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- Rules of Life (1645, English translation 1865) by Johan Amos Comenius
- Ethics (1677) [Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata] by Benedictus de Spinoza
- Treatise of Human Nature, 1739 by David Hume
- An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1780 by Jeremy Bentham
- Ethics (1912) by G. E. Moore
- Lecture II: Instinct and Habit, 1921 by Bertrand Russell
- Belmont Report, April 18, 1979, by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Articles
[edit]- Ethics, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
- The Ethics of Vivisection by Samuel Wilks as it appeared in the July 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- The Ethics of War by Bertrand Russell in the International Journal of Ethics, January, 1915
Fiction
[edit]- The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890 by Oscar Wilde
- Botchan, 1906 by Natsume Sōseki, 1918 translation by Yasotaro Morri
- Rashōmon, 1914 by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, translated by Wikisource
Verse
[edit]- The Castle of Indolence, 1748 by James Thomson
- Darkness, 1816 by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Etiquette
[edit]- Book of Etiquette (1921), by Lillian Eichler