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. The book inspires students to think about the nature of moral philosophy and to draw comparisons between different traditions. The 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 .