Introduction to Ethical Studies: An Open Source Reader
Lee Archie and John G. Archie
A college reader that introduces each moral theory and then lets the philosophers speak for themselves, from Plato, Aristotle, and Epictetus to Hume, Kant, Mill, and Nietzsche. Study questions follow every reading.
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