Classical Moralists
Benjamin Rand
Play
Length 34 h 17 min
Chapters 101
First published 1909
The book is virtually a history of ethics, based not upon the ordinary description of systems, but upon selections from the original sources and upon translations of the authors themselves. It is sought, so far as is practicable, to present by means of the case method the most distinctive and constructive features in the ethical systems of the successive moralists. The evolution of ethical thought is thereby revealed, stripped of its controversial material, from Socrates to Martineau. Such a work, it is hoped, will prove indispensable as a text-book of required reading, alike for the historical and for the systematic study of ethics in the universities. - Summary by Preface
Chapters
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Preface Read by George Banfield 12:42
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Socrates (469 — 399 B. C.) Part 2 Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025) 23:05
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Socrates (469 — 399 B. C.) Part 3 Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025) 13:50
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Plato (427 — 347 B. C.) Part 1 Read by ShrimpPhish 5:45
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Plato (427 — 347 B. C.) Part 2 Read by tingreads 41:58
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Plato (427 — 347 B. C.) Part 3 Read by earlyryeser 17:44
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Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Title Read by InTheDesert 1:05
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Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 1 Read by jonbuder 16:06
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Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 2 Read by jonbuder 20:25
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Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 3 Read by jonbuder 21:14
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Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 4 Read by jonbuder 15:18
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Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 5 Read by jonbuder 15:37
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Zeno (356 — 264 B. C.) Part 1 Read by Owlivia 26:05
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Zeno (356 — 264 B. C.) Part 2 Read by Owlivia 27:07
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Epicurus (341 — 270) Part 1 Read by Tom Shoesmith 27:56
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Epicurus (341 — 270 B. C.) Part 2 Read by jenno 15:23
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Titus Lucretius Carus (95 — 51 B. C.) Read by jonbuder 23:57
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Epictetus (60 A. D. —?) Part 1 Read by tingreads 19:15
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Epictetus (60 A. D. —?) Part 2 Read by ShrimpPhish 11:56
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 — 180) Part 1 Read by JamesTStone 16:46
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 — 180) Part 2 Read by Owlivia 29:15
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Plotinus (205 — 270) Part 1 Read by jonbuder 22:22
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Plotinus (205 — 270) Part 2 Read by jonbuder 16:24
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Saint Augustine (354 — 430) Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025) 26:15
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Peter Abelard (1079 — 1142) Read by jenno 14:22
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Thomas Aquinas (1225 — 1274) Part 1 Read by Owlivia 21:55
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Thomas Aquinas (1225 — 1274) Part 2 Read by Owlivia 18:14
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Hugo Grotius (1583 — 1645) Read by Owlivia 17:23
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Thomas Hobbes (1588 — 1679) Part 1 Read by jonbuder 21:28
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Thomas Hobbes (1588 — 1679) Part 2 Read by Vickii 19:42
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Ralph Cudworth (1617 — 1688) Part 1 Read by Vickii 18:31
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Ralph Cudworth (1617 — 1688) Part 2 Read by Vickii 12:41
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Henry More (1614 — 1687) Read by Vickii 12:15
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Richard Cumberland (1631 — 1718) Read by Vickii 23:41
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Baruch De Spinoza (1632 — 1677) Part 1 Read by Owlivia 20:32
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Baruch De Spinoza (1632 — 1677) Part 2 Read by Roxby 19:20
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Baruch De Spinoza (1632 — 1677) Part 3 Read by Roxby 19:23
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Baruch De Spinoza (1632 — 1677) Part 4 Read by Roxby 25:18
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Nicolas Malebranche (1638 — 1715) Read by Vickii 21:41
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John Locke (1632 — 1704) Part 1 Read by Peter Tucker 11:45
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John Locke (1632 — 1704) Part 2 Read by Peter Tucker 23:31
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Samuel Clarke (1675 — 1729) Read by G Kent 27:33
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Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671 — 1713) Part 1 Read by Marie Christian 29:00
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Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671 — 1713) Part 2 Read by Marie Christian 28:57
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Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671 — 1713) Part 3 Read by Marie Christian 14:09
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Bernard De Mandeville (1670 — 1733) Read by Owlivia 17:24
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William Wollaston (1660 — 1724) Part 1 Read by Will 22:58
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William Wollaston (1660 — 1724) Part 2 Read by Will 10:20
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Joseph Butler (1692 — 1752) Part 1 Read by InTheDesert 21:41
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Joseph Butler (1692 — 1752) Part 2 Read by InTheDesert 23:16
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Joseph Butler (1692 — 1752) Part 3 Read by InTheDesert 13:02
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Francis Hutcheson (1694 — 1747) Part 1 Read by Owlivia 15:27
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Francis Hutcheson (1694 — 1747) Part 2 Read by Owlivia 25:57
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Francis Hutcheson (1694 — 1747) Part 3 Read by Owlivia 19:55
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David Hartley (1705 — 1757) Read by G Kent 22:37
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David Hume (1711 — 1776) Part 1 Read by Denis Gagné 13:45
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David Hume (1711 — 1776) Part 2 Read by Denis Gagné 21:59
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Adam Smith (1723 — 1790) Part 1 Read by Kazbek 23:38
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Adam Smith (1723 — 1790) Part 2 Read by Kazbek 14:54
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Adam Smith (1723 — 1790) Part 3 Read by Kazbek 23:52
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Adam Smith (1723 — 1790) Part 4 Read by Vickii 20:29
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Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715 — 1771) Read by G Kent 19:17
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William Paley (1743 — 1805) Read by ShrimpPhish 9:28
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Jeremy Bentham (1748 — 1832) Part 1 Read by NickM 30:47
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Jeremy Bentham (1748 — 1832) Part 2 Read by NickM 20:04
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Jeremy Bentham (1748 — 1832) Part 3 Read by NickM 19:42
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Richard Price (1723 — 1791) Part 1 Read by Holly Mansfield 20:12
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Richard Price (1723 — 1791) Part 2 Read by Holly Mansfield 9:00
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Thomas Reid (1710 — 1796) Part 1 Read by G Kent 15:30
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Thomas Reid (1710 — 1796) Part 2 Read by G Kent 22:07
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Immanuel Kant (1724 — 1804) Part 1 Read by Owlivia 16:10
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Immanuel Kant (1724 — 1804) Part 2 Read by Owlivia 42:41
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Immanuel Kant (1724 — 1804) Part 3 Read by Owlivia 18:50
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 — 1814) Part 1 Read by G Kent 14:18
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 — 1814) Part 2 Read by G Kent 19:36
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 — 1814) Part 3 Read by G Kent 17:56
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 — 1831) Part 1 Read by Denis Gagné 21:02
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 — 1831) Part 2 Read by Denis Gagné 12:03
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 — 1831) Part 3 Read by Denis Gagné 27:57
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 — 1860) Part 1 Read by Peter Tucker 26:31
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 — 1860) Part 2 Read by Peter Tucker 6:51
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Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798 — 1854) Part 1 Read by G Kent 23:59
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Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798 — 1854) Part 2 Read by G Kent 11:34
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Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798 — 1854) Part 3 Read by G Kent 18:16
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John Stuart Mill (1806 — 1873) Part 1 Read by Owlivia 37:01
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John Stuart Mill (1806 — 1873) Part 2 Read by Owlivia 25:47
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John Stuart Mill (1806 — 1873) Part 3 Read by Owlivia 21:55
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Herbert Spencer (1820 — 1903) Part 1 Read by James Bleckley 30:25
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Herbert Spencer (1820 — 1903) Part 2 Read by James Bleckley 25:02
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Herbert Spencer (1820 — 1903) Part 3 Read by James Bleckley 15:36
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Henry Sidgwick (1838 — 1900) Part 1 Read by dporter3744 17:47
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Henry Sidgwick (1838 — 1900) Part 2 Read by NateHeard 23:46
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Francis Herbert Bradley (1846 — ) Part 1 Read by G Kent 19:29
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Francis Herbert Bradley (1846 — ) Part 2 Read by G Kent 26:18
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Francis Herbert Bradley (1846 — ) Part 3 Read by G Kent 14:34
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Thomas Hill Green (1836 — 1882) Part 1 Read by G Kent 20:04
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Thomas Hill Green (1836 — 1882) Part 2 Read by G Kent 18:11
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Thomas Hill Green (1836 — 1882) Part 3 Read by G Kent 16:31
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James Martineau (1805 — 1900) Part 1 Read by Vickii 22:52
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James Martineau (1805 — 1900) Part 2 Read by Vickii 32:22
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James Martineau (1805 — 1900) Part 3 Read by Vickii 29:35
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