ABSTRACT
One of the strange things about ethics is that of the wide range of books it has
spawned, there are few that have really raised their nose above the crowd. Without
doubt, there are many gems of ethics lying undisturbed in the publishers’
warehouses, or the basement shelves of libraries. The reader is therefore unable to
tap the collective wisdom of ‘popular opinion’ to find a few books to start with in
any area; rather, they must rely either on serendipitous chance (what’s in the
bookshop or library) or – worse no doubt – some official reading list. I say ‘worse’
having checked many reading lists in the course of preparing this guide and
finding that the ‘recommended reads’ are really just those of a decade or three ago
being reheated and topped with this year’s literary cherry. Meanwhile, as it were, all
around, the great sea of ethics literature lies unexplored. But here are a few ideas.
