Bibliographie:Classic Texts in Ethics

O GENERAL

Many major works in the history of ethics are now available on-line in electronic versions. Some are simply ASCI or text files as such, they contain a minimum of formating, but otherwise are quite serviceably. These can easily be searched or downloaded, and take up relatively little room in proportion to the amount of text they contain. Other files are in RTF, Rich Text Format, a standard developed by Microsoft that most word processors can use. These contain formatting niceties such as italics not found in ASCI files. A few files, although none currently on this list, are in Adobe Acrobat format, a very robust format that allows exten sive formatting possibilities. A viewer for these files is available without charge from Adobe. Finally, some files are in HTML, hypertext markup language.

Special note should be made of the files available at the Perseus Project at Tufts University. They are HTML files that make full use of the hypertext character of HTML. Click on any highlighted word (e.g., a proper name in one of Plato's dislogues), and you will automatically be taken to the entry for that name in a classical encyclopedia. This is the wave of the future

Servers that list Electronic Texts

• The On-line Books Page at Carnegie-Mellon.
• Philosophy in Cyberspace. Excellent selection of resources on the net. Maintained by Dey Alexander at Monash University
• Books On-line, Listed by Title
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Lists of Philosophical works available on-line. Maintained at the Free University of Berlin
• Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan.
• Index of /ftp.items/Library/Classic/. Wiretap Spies
• Philosophers Page. Extensive collection of on-line texts for numerous philosophers. Maintained by Jason Abbott.
• Philosophy. Classical philosophical texts. Maintained at Carnegie-Mellon.

1 ANTIQUITE

Plato (c. 429-347BC)

• Apology. Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts University.
• Crito. Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts University.
• Euthyphro. Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts University.
• Meno. Hypertext. Perseus Project. Tufts University.
• Phaedo. Hypertext. Perseus Project. Tufts University
• Philebus. Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts University.
• Republic. Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts University.
• Symposium. Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts University

• Björn's Plato Page

Aristotle (384-322BC)

• Eudemian Ethics. Perseus Project, Tufts University. English with Greek links.
• Nichomachean Ethics. Hypertext at Perseus.
• Nichomachean Ethics. W.D. Ross, trans. ASCI.
• Politics. Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts University.
• Politics. Jowett, trans. ASCI.
• Politics. ASCI text.
• Aristotle's Political Philosophy Page by Clifford A. Bates Jr.
• Rhetoric. Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts Univesity
• Rhetoric. W. Rhys Roberts, trans. ASCI.
• Virtues and Vices. Hypertext. PErseus Project. Tufts University.
• Björn's Aristotle Page

Epictetus

• The Discourses

Marcus Aurelius

• Meditations. Long, trans.

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Augustine (354-430)

• Confessions. Text, HTML, and pdf formats. Wheaton College.

• Björn's Augustine Page

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

• Summa Theologica. Maintained by the English Dominican Province

• Björn's Aquinas Page

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Montaigne

• Essays. Charles Cotton, trans. ASCI.

Hobbes (1588-1679)

• The Leviathan.
• Elements of Law Natural and Politics
• The Citizen: Liberty DominionReligion (1651)

• Björn's Hobbes Page

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1674)

• On the Improvement of the Understanding
• The Ethics - Parts I , II , III , IV , V
• A Theologico-Political Treatise
• Elwes' Introduction to his Spinoza Translations
• Joseph B. Yesselman's Home Page Dedicated to Spinoza's Insights.

Locke (1632-1704)

• Second Treatise of Government.
• A Letter Concerning Toleration, translated by William Popple.

• Björn's Locke Page

Hume (1711-1776)

• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• The Natural History of Religion
• My Own Life
• Essays on Suicide & the Immortality of the Soul. Unauthorized 1783 Edition.
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

• Björn's Hume Page

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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

• On Liberty.
• The Subjection of Women.
• Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment
• Autobiography
• Utilitarianism.
• Principles of Political Economy
• Representative Government
• Björn's Mill Page

Mary Wollstonecraft

• Vindiction of the Rights of Woman. 1792

Kant (1724-1804)

• The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
• Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals. Hastie translation.
• The Science of Right. Hastie translation.
• Critique of Practical Reason. Abbott translation.
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals. Abbott translation.
• Was ist Aufklärung ?

• Björn's Kant Page

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