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Further Reading

Aristotle. (350 BCE) 1998. Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by David Ross. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Beauvoir, Simone de. (1949) 2011. The Second Sex. Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. New York: Vintage Books.

Bentham, Jeremy. (1789) 1907. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.

Confucius. (ca. 500 BCE) 1979. The Analects. Translated by D. C. Lau. New York: Penguin Books.

Confucius. (1938) 1994. The Wisdom of Confucius. Edited and translated by Lin Yutang. New York: Random House.

Epictetus. (135 CE) 1983. The Enchiridion. Translated by Nicolas P. White. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing.

Gilligan, Carol. 1982. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Johnston, Ian. 2010. The Mozi: A Complete Translation. New York: Columbia University Press.

Kant, Immanuel. (1785) 1997. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Translated by Mary Gregor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lao-tzu. (ca. 6th century BC) 1993. Tao Te Ching. Translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing Company.

Mill, John Stuart. (1861) 1879. Utilitarianism. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Mill, John Stuart. (1859) 1869. On Liberty. London: Longman, Roberts, and Green Co.

Moore, G. E. 1903. Principia Ethica. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Noddings, Nel. 1984. Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Nussbaum, Martha. 1986. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Plato. Republic. (ca. 375 BCE) 1992. Translated by G. M. A. Grube. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing.

Ross, W. D. 1930. The Right and the Good. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Ross, W. D. 1939. Foundations of Ethics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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