Good and Evil
What is desirable, right and perfect, and its opposite; the root questions of ethics.
Works to read
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, c. 340 BCE · Great Books
- Philebus by Plato, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887
- All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare, c. 1604 · Great Books
- Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud, 1915 (English 1918) · Great Books
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 1749
- Amelia by Henry Fielding, 1751
- The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley, 1856
- The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, 1881-1883 (Italian; book 1883)
- Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato, c. 390s BC · Great Books
- Euthydemus by Plato, c. 384 BC · Great Books
- Rhetoric by Aristotle, c. 350-335 BC · Great Books
Passages
for to lavish the property of others is called generosity, and audacity in wickedness is called heroism; and hence the state is reduced to the brink of ruin.
— Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), Catiline's War and The Jugurthine War
Passages are verified quotations from the library that use one of these words: good, evil, wicked, wickedness. Sentences under “From the texts” are copied word for word from the full texts in this library. Read each in its context on the work's page.