Great Traditions in Ethics, now in its Eighth Edition, is one of the finest collections of primary source material available to beginning readers of ethics. With over a half million copies in print, its impartial and carefully edited presentation has enabled thousands to share in the intellectual experience created by many of the world's greatest philosophers.This new Eighth Edition contains an essay by Henry Sidgwick, to help readers connect much of the work in ethics from the 19th century to the 20th century. And it contains a thorough revision of the chapter on Plato, making the philosopher's writings more accessible to beginning ethics readers.
