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Ethics - the Philosophy of Moral Behaviour
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Ethics, or "moral philosophy", is concerned with the question of the best way to live, and how to relate to other people. Among the Squashed Philosophers find:
450BC: Confucius - The Analects
355BC: Plato - The Republic
355BD: Plato - The Symposium
310BC: Aristotle - Ethics
270BC: Epicurus - Sovran Maxims
20BC: Cicero - Friendship and Old Age
180CE: Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
1515: More - Utopia
1651: Hobbes - Leviathan
1677: Spinoza - Ethics
1690: Locke - Human Understanding
1751: Hume - Human Understanding
1762: Rousseau - Social Contract
1785: Kant - Metaphysics of Morals
1789: Bentham - Morals and Legislation
1792: Wollstonecraft - Rights of Woman
1836: Emerson - Nature
1843: Mill - On Liberty
1843: Kierkegaard - Either/Or
Or for a set of ethical views often considered dangerous, try these. You've been warned!
1795: Sade - Philosophy in the Boudoir
1964: Rand - Selfishness
1886: Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
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