Ethical Theory
There are many, many resources for the study of ethics. A very helpful guide with links to a wide range of materials has been created by Prof. Lawrence Hinman:
Ethics Updates
My Notes on:
Utilitarianism
Deontological Ethics
Rawls’s Theory of Justice
Virtue Ethics
Egoism
The story of the Ring of Gyges from Plato’s Republic
Selections from J. S. Mill’s Utilitarianism
Some helpful links:
- Mill’s life and philosophy (from IEP)
- Bentham’s life and philosophy (from IEP)
- a look at Bentham in the flesh (Yes, I know he’s dead!)
- Kant’s Moral philosophy (from Stanford Encyclopedia)
- Natural Law (from The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1910)
- Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law (from New Advent)