Briefly: Mill's Utilitarianism is a summarized version of John Stuart Mill's original treatise, which is designed to assist university and sixth-form students ...

The Republic is arguably Plato's most important work and was written in his middle period, around 370-5 BC. It is a philosophical masterpiece containing ...

Briefly: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is a summarized version of Immanual Kant's original treatsie, which is designed to assist university ...

Part of "The SCM Briefly" series, this volume begins with a contextualizing introduction about the writer and his writings, and a glossary of terms follows ...

Kant's Religion Within The Bounds of Mere Reason was written late in his life, following his most famous works including Critique of Pure Reason and Groundwork ...

The first part of the Summa Theologica by Aquinas was dealt with in an SCM Briefly guide that published in May 06. The second part of the Summa Theologica ...

In the Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), Bentham strove 'to cut a new road through the wilds of jurisprudence'. Laws should ...

Fear and Trembling is one of Kierkegaard's earliest works, which he wrote under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio. Kierkegaard had been a student of theology ...

Part of the "SCM Briefly" series, which summarizes books by philosophers and theologians, this book looks beyond good and evil. It also includes line by ...

This book discusses Fletcher's situation ethics which basically states that sometimes other moral principles can be cast aside in certain situations if ...