📚 Ethics

Moral philosophy without the sermon — right and wrong as questions that can be argued: duty, consequence, virtue, and what we owe each other.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ethics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	As a Man Thinketh	James Allen	1902	658
	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	1626	643
	Nicomachean Ethics	Aristotle	1558	417
	Jenseits von Gut und Böse	Friedrich Nietzsche	1885	415
	Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas	1467	277
	The Art of Loving	Erich Fromm	1956	108
	Lun yu	Confucius	1750	103
	Self-knowledge	John Mason	1745	96
	L'Homme révolté	Albert Camus	1951	82
	Ethica	Benedictus de Spinoza	1883	76
	Man for Himself	Erich Fromm	1947	66
	Kritik der praktischen Vernunft	Immanuel Kant	1788	65
	Этика	Peter Kropotkin	1923	54
	Epistulae morales	Seneca the Younger	1917	50
	Ethics	George Edward Moore	1907	39
	Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf	Wilhelm Reich	1936	34
	Zur Genealogie der Moral	Friedrich Nietzsche	1887	32
	Pour une morale de l'ambiguite	Simone de Beauvoir	1947	28
	Manual	Epictetus	1655	27
	The Psychology of Money	Morgan Housel	2020	27
	Commentaries on living	Jiddu Krishnamurti	1956	26
	12 Rules for Life	Jordan B. Peterson	2015	26
	The principles of ethics	Herbert Spencer	1892	25
	Ethics	Jacques P. Thiroux	1977	25
	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	2009	25
	Justice	Michael J. Sandel	2007	24
	Ethics	Aristotle	1900	23
	The Myth of Mental Illness	Thomas Stephen Szasz	1961	23
	The Tao of Pooh	Benjamin Hoff	1982	19
	Contemporary Moral Issues	Lawrence M. Hinman	1995	19

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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