📚 Ethics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with ethics on their catalogue record, first published between 1467 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ethics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 135,902 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
As a Man Thinketh	James Allen	1902	658
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	1626	643
Nicomachean Ethics	Aristotle	1558	417
Jenseits von Gut und Böse	Friedrich Nietzsche	1885	415
Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas	1467	277
The Art of Loving	Erich Fromm	1956	107
Lun yu	Confucius	1750	103
Self-knowledge	John Mason	1745	96
L'Homme révolté	Albert Camus	1951	82
Ethica	Benedictus de Spinoza	1883	75
Man for Himself	Erich Fromm	1947	66
Kritik der praktischen Vernunft	Immanuel Kant	1788	65
Этика	Peter Kropotkin	1923	54
Epistulae morales	Seneca the Younger	1917	50
Ethics	George Edward Moore	1907	39
Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf	Wilhelm Reich	1936	34
Zur Genealogie der Moral	Friedrich Nietzsche	1887	32
Pour une morale de l'ambiguite	Simone de Beauvoir	1947	28
Manual	Epictetus	1655	27
The Psychology of Money	Morgan Housel	2020	27
Commentaries on living	Jiddu Krishnamurti	1956	26
12 Rules for Life	Jordan B. Peterson	2015	26
The principles of ethics	Herbert Spencer	1892	25
Ethics	Jacques P. Thiroux	1977	25
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	2009	25
Justice	Michael J. Sandel	2007	24
Ethics	Aristotle	1900	23
The Myth of Mental Illness	Thomas Stephen Szasz	1961	23
The Tao of Pooh	Benjamin Hoff	1982	19
Contemporary Moral Issues	Lawrence M. Hinman	1995	19

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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