A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
Ralph Cudworth
The Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth argues that right and wrong are as unchangeable as the truths of geometry, not mere commands of God or the state. A founding text of moral rationalism, in the original 1731 edition.
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