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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

Anagnostopoulos, Georgios. Aristotle On The Goals And Exactness Of Ethics. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1994.

Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. Oxford, OX, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Donagan, Alan. Reflections on Philosophy and Religion. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press (US), 1999.

Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Raleigh, N.C. : Alex Catalogue.

Identity, Character, and Morality. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1993.

Kant, Immanuel. A Critique of Pure Reason. Raleigh, N.C. : Alex Catalogue.

Kant, Immanuel. Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysics Of Morals. Raleigh, N.C. : Alex Catalogue.

Kant, Immanuel. Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals. Raleigh, N.C. : Alex Catalogue.

Mind and Morals. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Beyond Good and Evil. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press (UK), 1998.

Sidgwick, Henry. Practical Ethics. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press (US), 1998.

Spinoza, Benedictus de. The Ethics. Champaign, Ill. (P.O. Box 2782, Champaign 61825) : Project Gutenberg.

Timmons, Mark. Morality without Foundations. New York : Oxford University Press (US), 1999.

 

Periodical Databases
 

Ebsco Database (password required)

  • Ebsco Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • GPO Monthly Catalog - Index to information printed by the US Government Printing Office. Tips on using this database.
  • PsychInfo -- Index to psychological journal articles, books, chapters, technical reports and dissertations from 1887 to the present.
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

Academic Universe and Congressional Universe from Lexis-Nexis. (password required)

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Aristotle.
Introduction to Aristotle.
New York: The Modern Library, [1947]. B407 .M22

Crisp, Roger.
Virtue ethics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. BJ1521 .V565 1997

Fletcher, Joseph F.
Hello, lovers! An introduction to situation ethics.
Washington: Corpus Books, [1970]. BJ1251 .F516

Gustafson, James M.
Theology and Christian ethics.
Philadelphia: United Church Press, [1974]. BJ1251 .G88

Mayo, Bernard.
The philosophy of right and wrong: an introduction to ethical theory.
Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. BJ1012 .M39 1986

Rosenstand, Nina.
The moral of the story: an introduction to questions of ethics and human nature.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, c1994. BJ1012 .R59 1994

Shannon, Thomas A.
An introduction to bioethics.
New York: Paulist Press, c1979. QH332 .S47

Ward, Leo R.
Christian ethics, an introduction for college students. St. Louis: Herder, 1952. BJ1249 .W3

Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen.
Morality: an introduction to ethics.
New York: Harper and Row, [1972]. BJ1012 .W535

 

Selected Websites

 

Online materials for students enrolled in PL 169 are provided by the Busse Library, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA. Use is limited to registered students. Contact the Busse Library with your questions.