My Reading List
A list of recent books I’ve loved on ethics and justice can be found here.
General Bibliography
In past years, I have offered several courses in Ethics and Justice for undergraduate and graduate students. As background readings, I often use the following bibliography.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt
The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
The Principles of Morals and Legislation
by Jeremy Bentham
Deontology Or, the Science of Morality
by Jeremy Bentham
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
by G. W. F. Hegel
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
by David Hume
Treatise of Human Nature
by David Hume
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
by Emmanuel Kant
Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Pure Reason
by Emmanuel Kant
Metaphysics of Morals
by Emmanuel Kant
Philosophical Essays
by G. W. Leibniz
After Virtues
by Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre
Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill
On the Genealogy of Morals
by Friedrich Nietzsche
On What Matters
by Derek Parfit
A Theory of Justice
by John Rawls
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy
by John Rawls
Lectures 1 and The Just
by Paul Ricœur
Practical Ethics + Famine, Affluence, and Morality
by Peter Singer
Dictionnaire d'éthique et de philosophie morale
by Monique Canto-Sperber
Great books
In my classes, I often ask students to read a ‘great book’ to discuss a particular attribute or issue of ethics or moral leadership. In past years, students have read the following books.
Antigone
by Sophocle
The Tyger
by William Blake
Bull
by Mo Yan
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
The Fur Hat
by Vladimir Voinovich
Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector and Selected Stories
by Nicolai Gogol
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
by Ernest Hemingway
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
by Ken Saro-Wiwa
The Leviathan
by Joseph Roth
The Death of the Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Other titles used in my courses
The Elements of Moral Philosophy, Stuart Rachels, ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012
by James Rachels
Duties Beyond Borders
by Stanley Hoffmann
“Utilitarianism”, University of Kansas, Elsevier, 2012
by B. Eggleston
“The Influencers of Choice and Decision Making”, in Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence, Wisdom Publications, 2018
by Elke Weber
Cosmopolitanism, Ethics in a World of Stranger
by Kwane Anthony Appiah
“Ethical Theory”, in Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, 2014
by Wiley Blackwell
“Hoffmann’s Kantian Justification for Humanitarian Intervention”, in The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention, University of Notre Dame, 1996
by James P. Sterba
“The Rise of Ethics in Foreign Policy: Reaching a Values Consensus”, in Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2003
by Leslie H. Gelb and Justine A. Rosenthal
“An International Ethic”, in Foreign Affairs, 15 December 1924
by L.P. Jacks
The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations, Routledge 2006
by Torkel Brekke
“War and Peace in Islam,” in Sohail Hashmi, ed., Islamic Political Ethics
by Basham Tibi
“Culture and Human Rights”, in Development as Freedom, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 227-249
by Basham Tibi
“And Justice for All: Enforcing Human Rights for the World’s Poor”, in Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2010
by Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros
Economic Rights and Distributive Justice in Developing Societies, World Politics, Vol. 33, No. 3 (April 1981), pp. 321-346
by Charles R. Beitz
“What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values”
by Michael J. Sandel
“A Perfect Moral Storm”, The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change, Oxford University Press, 2011
by Stephen Gardiner
“Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification?” Ethics and International Affairs 19:1 (Spring 2005)
by Mathias Risse
Rethinking the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Eight Ways to End Poverty Now, in Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric
by Thomas Pogge & Mitu Sengupta
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