Antiquity

• "Tanakh" (9th c BC)
• +"Upanishads" (7th c BC)
• +Confucius: "Analects"
• +Laozi: "Daodejing"
• +"Pali Tipitaka"
• +Plato: "Republic" (4th c BC)
• +Aristotle: "Nichomachean Ethics" (4th c BC)
• Zeno of Citium (3rd c BC)
• Epicurus (3rd c BC)
• +Lucretius: "De Rerum Natura" (60 BC)
• "Gospels" (1st c)
• "Avesta" (2nd c)
• Seneca, Lucius-Annaeus (1st c)
• Epictetus (2nd c)
• +Augustine: "Confessions" (398)
• "Bhagavad Gita" (4th c)
• "Talmud" (6th c)
• "Quran" (7th c)

Medieval and Renaissance

• "Magna Charta" (1215)
• Abelard, Pierre: "Ethica" (1140)
• +Tommaso Aquino: "Summa Theologiae" (1274)
• +Montaigne, Michel: "Essays" (1580)
• +Pascal, Blaise: "Thoughts" (1662)
• +Spinoza, Baruch: "Ethics" (1677)

18th and 19st Centuries

• Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury: "Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times" (1711)
• Francis Hutcheson: "Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil" (1725)
• David Hartley: "Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations" (1749)
• +Hume, David: "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" (1751)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: "The Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men" (1754)
• Smith, Adam: "Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759)
• +Kant, Immanuel: "Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)
• "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" (1789)
• Bentham, Jeremy: "An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation" (1789)
• Robespierre, Maximilien: "On Subsistence Goods" (1792)
• Wollstonecraft, Mary: "Vindiction of the Rights of Woman" (1792)
• Hegel, Georg: "Elements of the Philosophy of Right" (1820)
• Thoreau, Henry-David: "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
• +Mill, John-Stuart: "Utilitarianism " (1863)
• Marx, Karl: "Das Kapital" (1867)
• Bakunin, Mikhail: "God and the State" (1871)
• Sidwick, Henry: "The Methods of Ethics" (1874)
• Bradley, Francis-Herbert: "Ethical Studies" (1876)
• Nietzsche, Friedrich: "On the Genealogy of Morality" (1887)

20th and 21st Centuries

• +Moore, George-Edward: "Principia Ethica" (1903)
• +Mead, George Herbert: "The Philosophical Basis for Ethics" (1908)
• Russell, Bertrand: "The Elements of Ethics" (1910)
• Buber, Martin: "I and Thou" (1923)
• Ross, William-David: "The Right and the Good" (1930)
• Westermarck, Edward: "Ethical Relativity" (1932)
• Trotsky, Leon: "Their Morals and Ours" (1938)
• +Camus, Albert: "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942)
• Stevenson, Charles: "Ethics and Language" (1944)
• Sartre, Jean-Paul: "Existentialism is a Humanism" (1946)
• Beauvoir, Simone: "The Ethics of Ambiguity" (1947)
• Adorno, Theodor: "Minima Moralia" (1951)
• Hare, Richard-Mervyn: "The Language of Morals" (1952)
• Murdoch, Iris: "Metaphysics and Ethics" (1957)
• Emmanuel Levinas: "Totality and Infinity" (1961)
• Mao, Tze-dung: "Little Red Book" (1965)
• Thomas Nagel: "The Possibility of Altruism" (1970)
• +Rawls, John: "Theory of Justice" (1971)
• Cattell, Raymond: "A New Morality from Science" (1972)
• Williams, Bernard: "Morality - An Introduction to Ethics" (1972)
• Bahm, Archie: "Ethics as a Behavioral Science" (1974)
• +Pugh, George: "The Biological Origin of Human Values" (1977)
• Mackie, John Leslie: "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" (1977)
• Walzer, Michael: "Just and Unjust Wars" (1977)
• Bok, Sissela: "Lying, Moral Choice in Public and Private Life" (1978)
• Singer, Peter: "Practical Ethics" (1979)
• Colin McGinn: "Evolution, Altruism and the Basis of Morality" (1979)
• MacIntyre, Alasdair: "After Virtue" (1981)
• +Kohlberg, Lawrence: "The Philosophy of Moral Development" (1981)
• Sperry, Roger: "Science and Moral Priority" (1983)
• +Derek, Parfit: "Reasons and Persons" (1984)
• Shelly Kegan: "The Limits of Morality" (1989)
• Giorgio Agamben: "The Coming Community" (1990)
• Susan Wolf: "Freedom Within Reason" (1993)
• Philip Pettit: "The Common Mind" (1993)
• Judith Jarvis Thomson: "Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity" (1996)
• John Harris: "Clones, Genes and Immortality - Ethics and the Genetics Revolution" (1998)
• Marcia Baron: "Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology" (1999)
• Rosalind Hursthouse: "Ethics, Humans and Other Animals" (2000)
• Michael Slote: "Morals From Motives" (2001)
• Jonathan Haidt: "The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail" (2001)
• Haidt, Jonathan: "The Happiness Hypothesis" (2006)
• Sandel, Michael: "Justice" (2007)
• David Benatar: "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence" (2008)
• Joanna Zylinska: "Bioethics in the Age of New Media" (2009)
• Julian Savulescu (Australia, 1963): "Unfit for Life" (2009)
• Sen, Amartya: "The Idea of Justice" (2009)
• Prinz, Jesse: "The Emotional Construction of Morals" (2011)
• Singer, Peter: "The Expanding Circle - Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress" (2011)
• Dworkin, Ronald: "Justice for Hedgehogs" (2011)
• Kurzban, Robert: "Why Everyone" (Else) Is a Hypocrite" (2012)