List of ethicists
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List of ethicists including religious or political figures recognized by those outside their tradition as having made major contributions to ideas about ethics, or raised major controversies by taking strong positions on previously unexplored problems.
All are known for an ethical work or problem, but a few are primarily authors or satirists, or known as a mediator, politician, futurist or scientist, rather than as an essayist or philosopher. Some controversial figures are included, some of whom you may see as bad examples. A few are included because their names have become synonymous with certain ethical debates, but only if they personally elaborated an ethical theory justifing their actions. Inclusion on this list is not an endorsement of any ethical point of view.
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A
- Pierre Ablard
- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Mortimer Adler
- Thomas Aquinas
- Ambrose
- Andronicus of Rhodes
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Aristotle
- Aristoxenus
- Isaac Asimov
- Asoka
- Ronald Atlas
- Augustine of Hippo
- Marcus Aurelius
- Avicenna
B
- Franz Xaver von Baader
- Francis Bacon
- Samuel Bailey
- Friedrich Eduard Beneke
- Jeremy Bentham
- Henri Bergson
- Thomas Berry
- Maurice Blanchot
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- George Boole
- Gautama Buddha
- Mario Bunge
- Judith Butler
- Nasim Butt
C
- Brother Cadfael
- Miguel de Cervantes
- M. Umar Chapra
- Noam Chomsky
- Chu Hsi enlarged Confucian ethics to include women and children.
- Cicero
- Samuel Clarke
- Pierre Claude Franois Daunou
- Clement of Alexandria
- tienne Bonnot de Condillac
- Confucius
- Crantor arranged "good" things
- Bernard Crick
D
E
F
- Johann Albert Fabricius
- Ismail Raji' al-Faruqi
- Nosson Zvi Finkel
- Owen Flanagan
- Joseph Fletcher
- Michel Foucault
- Alexander Campbell Fraser
- Erich Fromm
- Buckminster Fuller
G
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Ghazali
- Carol Gilligan
- Newt Gingrich
- Victor Gollancz
- Thomas Hill Green
- Stanley Grenz
- Hugo Grotius
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
H
- Jrgen Habermas
- Hammurabi
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Henry Hazlitt
- Paul Hawken
- Claude Adrien Helvtius
- Frank Herbert
- Herg
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Hierocles of Alexandria
- James Hinton
- Wau Holland
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- L. Ron Hubbard
- David Hume
- John Peters Humphrey - author of UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights
- Francis Hutcheson
- Thomas Henry Huxley
I
J
- Jane Jacobs
- Paul Janet
- Thomas Jefferson
- Francis Jeffrey
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Pope John Paul II
- Thodore Simon Jouffroy
- Bill Joy
K
- Theodore Kaczynski
- Immanuel Kant - Metaphysic of Ethics
- Rushworth Kidder
- Sren Kierkegaard
- Israel Kirzner
- Lawrence Kohlberg
- David Korten
- Peter Kropotkin
- Hans Kng
L
- Winona LaDuke
- George Lakoff
- Norman Lamm
- Ursula LeGuin
- Aldo Leopold
- Emmanuel Levinas
- John Locke
- Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
M
- Niccol Machiavelli
- J. L. Mackie
- Steve Mann
- Mao Zedong
- Marcion of Sinope
- James Martineau
- Karl Marx
- Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi
- John McDowell
- Donella Meadows
- Mencius
- Menedemus
- Fatima Mernissi
- Stanley Milgram
- James Mill
- Carol Moore
- G. E. Moore
- Moses
- Muhammad
N
- Thomas Nagel
- Syed Nawab Haider Naqwi
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning
- H. Richard Niebuhr
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Carlos Santiago Nino
- Karl Immanuel Nitzsch
O
P
Q
R
- Fazlur Rahman
- Ayn Rand
- John Rawls
- Martin Rees
- George Croom Robertson
- W. D. Ross
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Salman Rushdie
- John Ruskin
- Bertrand Russell
S
- Marquis de Sade
- Edward Said
- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
- Ziauddin Sardar
- John Ralston Saul
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
- Friedrich Schiller
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
- Moritz Schlick
- Frank Schmalleger
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Albert Schweitzer
- Amartya Sen
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Muhammad Nijatullah Siddiqui
- Henry Sidgwick
- Georg Simmel
- Peter Singer
- B. F. Skinner
- J. J. C. Smart
- Adam Smith
- Baruch Spinoza
- John Shelby Spong
- Richard M. Stallman
- Charles L. Stevenson
- Dugald Stewart
- Stobaeus
- John C. Stennis
- Leslie Stephen
- David Friedrich Strauss
- Sun Yat-Sen
- David Suzuki
- Randy Cohen
T
U to Z
- Johann Georg Walch
- William George Ward
- Otto Weininger
- William Whewell
- Philip Wicksteed
- E. O. Wilson
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Susan Wolf
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- William Wollaston
- Steve Wozniak
- Xenocrates
- John Howard Yoder
- Theodor Zwinger