Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding-David Hume

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill.John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women , Utilitarianism contains Mill's only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory.Featured on Ethics.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Our Knowledge of the External World As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.Featured on Ethics.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Oscar Wilde Art and Morality by Stuart Mason.Featured on Ethics.This episode includes AI-generated content.

What I Believe by Bertrand Russell.Provides a brief indication of the beliefs of philosopher Bertrand Russell, focusing on his hopes for the future. The topics included are: nature and man, the good life, moral rules, individual and social salvation, and science and happiness.Featured on Ethics.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume.The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism addressed toward the former book. In it, Hume explains his theory of epistemology, and argues against other current theories, including those of John Locke, George Berkeley, and Nicolas Malebranche.Featured on Ethics.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

The Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson.From the book:It chanced during one winter, a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age. By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New York, on the Spirit of the Times. It so happened that the subject had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season. To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity. ‘Tis fine for us to speculate and elect our course, if we must accept an irresistible dictation.Featured on Ethics.Public-domain audiobook.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche.In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions. For analytical power, more especially in those parts where Nietzsche examines the ascetic ideal, The Genealogy of Morals is unequalled by any other of his works; and, in the light which it throws upon the attitude of the ecclesiast to the man of resentment and misfortune, it is one of the most valuable contributions to sacerdotal psychology.Featured on Ethics.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Moral Principles in Education by John Dewey.In this book, Dewey elaborates the moral principles that play into the field of education. Starting from the role morality plays in the purpose of the school, Dewey asserts his points regarding the moral training that should be given by the school community, particularly from the methods of instruction, the social nature of the course of study, and the psychological aspect of moral education.Featured on Ethics.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant.The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, is Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy. It argues for an a priori basis for morality. Where the Critique of Pure Reason laid out Kant's metaphysical and epistemological ideas, this relatively short, primarily meta-ethical, work was intended to outline and define the concepts and arguments shaping his future work The Metaphysics of Morals. However, the latter work is much less readable than the Fundamental Principles.Featured on Ethics.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant.The Critique of Practical Reason ( Kritik der praktischen Vernunft ) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788. It follows on from his Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his moral philosophy. The second Critique exercised a decisive influence over the subsequent development of the field of ethics and moral philosophy, becoming the principle reference point for ethical systems that focus on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions. Subsequently termed “deontological ethics”, Kant’s ethical system also laid the groundwork of moral absolutism, the belief that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are right or wrong, devoid of the context of the act.Featured on Ethics.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.