List of ethicists

List of ethicists including religious or political figures recognized by those outside their tradition as having made major contributions to ideas about ethics, or raised major controversies by taking strong positions on previously unexplored problems.

All are known for an ethical work or problem, but a few are primarily authors or satirists, or known as a mediator, politician, futurist or scientist, rather than as an ethicist or philosopher. Some controversial figures are included, some of whom you may see as bad examples. A few are included because their names have become synonymous with certain ethical debates, but only if they personally elaborated an ethical theory justifying their actions.

A Peter Abelard Ambedkar John Stevens Cabot Abbott Mortimer Adler Thomas Aquinas Nomy Arpaly Ambrose Andronicus of Rhodes Julia Annas G. E. M. Anscombe Karl-Otto Apel Jacob M. Appel Aristotle Aristoxenus John Arthur Benedict Ashley, OP Ashoka Augustine of Hippo Avicenna Joxe Azurmendi

B Bahá'u'lláh Franz Xaver von Baader Francis Bacon Alain Badiou Samuel Bailey Tom Beauchamp Lewis White Beck Saint Robert Bellarmine, S.J. David Benatar Friedrich Eduard Beneke Jeremy Bentham Thomas Berry Maurice Blanchot Dietrich Bonhoeffer Murray Bookchin George Boole Nick Bostrom Daniel Brock Martin Buber Gautama Buddha Mario Bunge Judith Butler

C Albert Camus Arthur Caplan Roger Chao James Childress Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist Randy Cohen Confucius John M. Cooper Michael Cranford Alice Crary Roger Crisp Simon Critchley David Crocker Noam Chomsky

D Mary Daly Norman Daniels Partha Dasgupta Abraham ibn Daud Charles De Koninck Miguel A. De La Torre Cora Diamond Philip Doddridge Elliot N. Dorff Julia Driver Ronald Dworkin

E Epicurus Rudolf Christoph Eucken

F Johann Albert Fabricius Ismail al-Faruqi Nosson Tzvi Finkel John Finnis Joseph Fins Owen Flanagan Joseph Fletcher Philippa Foot William K. Frankena Alexander Campbell Fraser R. Edward Freeman R. G. Frey Erich Fromm

G Raimond Gaita Mohandas Gandhi Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP David Gauthier Alan Gewirth Al-Ghazali Allan Gibbard Peter Goldie Victor Gollancz Celia Green Thomas Hill Green Stanley Grenz Hugo Grotius Jean-Marie Guyau Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

H Jürgen Habermas Hammurabi R. M. Hare Gilbert Harman Sam Harris John Harsanyi Robert S. Hartman Stanley Hauerwas Henry Hazlitt Paul Hawken Martin Heidegger Erich Heller Claude Adrien Helvétius Johann Friedrich Herbart Abraham Joshua Heschel Hierocles of Alexandria James Hinton Thomas Hobbes Wau Holland Robert L. Holmes Oscar Horta Hans-Hermann Hoppe David Hume John Peters Humphrey - author of UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights Edward Hundert Rosalind Hursthouse Francis Hutcheson Thomas Henry Huxley

I Lauri Ingman Alija Izetbegović

J Jane Jacobs - author of Systems of Survival Paul Janet Francis Jeffrey Théodore Simon Jouffroy Jesus of Nazareth John Paul II

K Shelly Kagan Immanuel Kant - Metaphysic of Ethics Rushworth Kidder Søren Kierkegaard Martin Luther King Jr. İoanna Kuçuradi Israel Kirzner Lawrence Kohlberg Mario Kopić Christine Korsgaard David Korten Tadeusz Kotarbiński Peter Kropotkin Hans Küng

L Louis Lavelle Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek Aldo Leopold Barron H. Lerner Emmanuel Levinas Saint Alphonsus Liguori CSsR Andrew Linzey D. Stephen Long John Locke Antoine Garaby de La Luzerne Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

M Niccolò Machiavelli Alasdair MacIntyre J. L. Mackie William MacAskill Maimonides Mao Zedong Marcion of Sinope Jack Mahoney Jacques Maritain James Martineau John McDowell Glenn McGee Ralph McInerny Donella Meadows Peter Medawar Mencius Menedemus Alan Morinis Mozi Fatema Mernissi Mary Midgley James Mill John Stuart Mill Moses - the Ethical Decalogue Michele Moody-Adams G. E. Moore Radhakamal Mukerjee Iris Murdoch

N Thomas Nagel Seyyed Hossein Nasr Oswald von Nell-Breuning H. Richard Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhr Friedrich Nietzsche Carlos Santiago Nino Karl Immanuel Nitzsch David L. Norton Robert Nozick Martha Nussbaum Guru Nanak

O Hilda D. Oakeley John Joseph O'Connor Onora O'Neill Michel Onfray

P Blaise Pascal Bahya ibn Paquda Derek Parfit David Pearce Philip Pettit Philo of Alexandria Plato Tess Posner Noel Preston Richard Price Prodicus

Q Quintilian

R Fazlur Rahman Peter Railton Ayn Rand John Rawls Joseph Raz Tom Regan George Croom Robertson Richard Rorty W. D. Ross Murray Rothbard Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Ruskin Emma Rush Bertrand Russell

S Marquis de Sade Edward Said Israel Salanter Michael J. Sandel Julian Savulescu Ziauddin Sardar John Ralston Saul Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Giovanni Battista Scaramelli T. M. Scanlon Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Samuel Scheffler Max Scheler Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel Moritz Schlick Frank Schmalleger David Schmidtz Arthur Schopenhauer Bart Schultz Albert Schweitzer Amartya Sen Lucius Annaeus Seneca Russ Shafer-Landau Henry Sidgwick Georg Simmel Peter Singer B. F. Skinner J. J. C. Smart Adam Smith Holly Martin Smith Michael A. Smith Wesley J. Smith Vladimir Solovyov Margaret Somerville Herbert Spencer Baruch Spinoza John Shelby Spong Walter Terence Stace Olaf Stapledon Charles Stevenson Dugald Stewart Max Stirner Stobaeus Ira F. Stone Jeffrey Stout Leslie Stephen David Friedrich Strauss Sun Yat-sen

T Gabriele Taylor Richard Clyde Taylor Jenny Teichman Larry Temkin Judith Jarvis Thomson Paul Tillich Hsun Tzu Leo Tolstoy Joan Tronto Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Thiruvalluvar

U to Z Henry Babcock Veatch Justin Shaun Veeran Francisco de Vitoria Johann Georg Walch William George Ward Otto Weininger William Whewell Philip Wicksteed Benjamin Wiker Daniel Wikler Bernard Williams Susan Wolf Christian Wolff (philosopher) William Wollaston Xenocrates Xunzi John Howard Yoder Simcha Zissel Ziv Theodor Zwinger Swami Vivekananda Zoroaster

See also Index of ethics articles List of ethics topics List of philosophers Outline of ethics

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