ethics

Peter Singer: Global Ethics lecture courtesy of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics - RealVideo format

General Resources

Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics
A fantastic collection of on-line debates about issues in applied ethics. Includes an excellent background reading section.

Aristotle and Virtue Ethics
A fine collection of links and information from the University of San Diego.

The Bentham Project
Information on Jeremy Bentham, the founder of modern utilitarianism, and to the UCL Bentham Project itself.

Ethics Matters
(Formerly Ethics Updates). Links to meta- and applied ethics sites and papers.

Global Virtue Ethics Review
Academic articles on virtue ethics.

Human Rights Watch
Links to their website.

Kantian deontology
Summation of the deontological position.

Notes on Deontology
By Charles D Kay.

The John Rawls Resource Page
The Policy Library’s information page (with links) on a modern-day transposer of Kantian thought to politics and society.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Hosted by the University of California at Berkeley.

Utilitarian.net
Information on utilitarian philosophers, from Bentham to Singer.

Utilitarian.org
Applying utilitarian principles to the real world.

Utilitarianism Resources
A very good collection of utilitarianist links.

Online E-texts

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
Translated by WD Ross. From the Internet Classics Archive.

Broad, CD: Five Types of Ethical Theory
Discusses the ethics of Spinoza, Butler, Hume, Kant, and Sidgwick. Hosted by Digital Text International.

Kant, Immanuel: Critique of Practical Reason
Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. From the Philosophy section of the Eserver.org website.

Kant, Immanuel: Fundamental Principals of the Metaphysics of Morals
Trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. Hosted by Eserver.org.

Kant, Immanuel: The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
Trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. From the Eserver.org website.

MacIntyre, Alasdair: excerpts from “Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Vol II”
From the Cambridge University Press; in .pdf format.

Newall, Paul: Ethics (2005)
A short-ish introduction to ethics, hosted by The Galilean Library.

Ross, WD: The Right and the Good
Translated into hypertext by Andrew Chrucky. From the Digital Text International website.

Singer, Peter: online articles
Hosted by Utilitarian.net.

Journals

Electronic Journal of Business and Organization Ethics

Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics (EJAIB)

The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy
Fascinating magazine whose editors advocate inclusive political, economic and social democracy, but not at the expense of articles critical of their position.

Issues in Ethics

Journal of Biblical Ethics in Medicine

Journal of Buddhist Ethics

The On-Line Journal of Ethics
Hosted by the University of St Thomas in Houston, Texas.

Societies

The British Society for Ethical Theory

The Society for Ethics
Based in the USA.

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