MDS 171
Wording: Philosophy & psychology Ethics Ethical systems
Dewmoji: 🧠๐๐ญ
0 Computer science, information & general works 252,013 โน๏ธ | 1 Philosophy & psychology 270,129 🧠 | 2 Religion 681,242 ๐ | 3 Society, government, & culture 1,328,382 ๐ซ | 4 Language 209,883 ๐ฌ | 5 Natural sciences & mathematics 431,918 ๐ฌ | 6 Applied science & technology 940,635 ๐ก | 7 Arts & recreation 1,031,850 ๐จ | 8 Literature & rhetoric 1,436,736 ๐ | 9 History & geography 837,760 ๐บ๏ธ |
10 Philosophy 16,863 ๐ญ | 11 Metaphysics (existence, purpose, and the nature of reality) 10,725 ๐ | 12 Epistemology (how do you know what you know?) 15,959 ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ | 13 Parapsychology & occultism 37,795 ๐ฎ | 14 Philosophical schools of thought 7,413 ๐ฌ | 15 Psychology 104,071 Ψ | 16 Philosophical logic 4,852 โ | 17 Ethics 29,288 ๐ | 18 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy 15,617 ๐ | 19 Modern western philosophy 27,546 ๐ฌ |
170 Animals rights, Euthanasia, Pro-life 7,880 ๐ | 171 Ethical systems 1,800 ๐ญ | 172 Political ethics 2,050 ๐ณ | 173 Ethics of family relationships 436 ๐ฉโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ง | 174 Occupational ethics 8,516 ๐ | 175 Ethics of recreation, leisure, public performances, communication 386 ๐ช | 176 Ethics of sex and reproduction 859 ๐ | 177 Ethics of social relations 2,001 ๐ | 178 Ethics of consumption 439 ๐ธ | 179 Other ethical norms 4,921 ๐ |
171.0 16 | 171.1 Authority - Will of God - Christian 106 | 171.2 Intuition - Moral sentiment 438 | 171.3 Perfection 237 | 171.4 Happiness - Hedonism 71 | 171.5 Utilitarianism 129 | 171.6 Conscience - Casuistry 48 | 171.7 Evolutionary or educational 218 | 171.8 Altruism 74 | 171.9 Egoism 32 |
Selected Works under MDS 171 (1,800)
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
- The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
- The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B Irvine
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
- Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics by Erich Fromm
- On Duties [in translation] by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Principia Ethica by G. E. Moore
- The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- De Officiis [Latin text] by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong by Marc Hauser
- On Moral Ends by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The Responsible Self: An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophy (Library of Theological Ethics) by H. Richard Niebuhr
- Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air by Francis J. Beckwith
- Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill
- Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe by Greg M. Epstein
- Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell
- Plato: Philebus [Greek Text] by Plato
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Wording
| 1922 Edition |
| Modern Language |
| Emoji |







![On Duties [in translation]](https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521348358.01._SX100_SY200_SCRM_.jpg)



![De Officiis [Latin text]](https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674990331.01._SX100_SY200_SCRM_.jpg)







![Plato: Philebus [Greek Text]](https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/57/29/5729856-c-h200-w100-pv25_593042755677426b414d6741_v5.jpg)










![Utilitarianism; [and], on Liberty; [and], Essay on Bentham](https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/53/90/5390167-c-h200-w100-pv25_5931632f5567426b414d6741_v5.jpg)
























