Ethics -- Early works to 1800 books

Plutarch's Morals

Plutarch

Plutarch’s Morals is a philosophical dialogue that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical exchange between a…

Gorgias

Plato

Plato’s Gorgias is a philosophical dialogue that pits Socrates against three prominent Athenian figures,…

De Officiis

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Meno

Plato

The Theory of Moral Sentiments Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages.

Adam Smith

The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits

Bernard Mandeville

Charmides

Plato

The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.

Plutarch

Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. I.

Plutarch

Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobæus: and also, Ethical fragments of Hierocles, the celebrated commentator on the Golden Pythagoric Verses, preserved by the same author

Gorgias

Plato