A guide to reading in social ethics and allied subjects: lists of books and articles selected and described for the use of general readers

by teachers in Harvard University.

[Forensic dispute on the nature of virtue], undated

Two drafts of a handwritten essay on the nature of virtue, beginning with the prompt, "Whether there be any Virtue in doing good to another merely for the sake of benefiting [sic] ourselves." The last verso is inscribed: "4 Forensic. read."

[Ethics and Moral Philosophy book list, 1790]

One leaf containing a handwritten list of books with one column marked "Ethics" and the other column marked "Moral Philosophy." Entries contain the author's last name and abbreviated title. The page is inscribed "Vose," likely referring to Roger Vose (Harvard AB 1790), and the verso has a fragment of a poem.

[Ethics and moral philosophy book list, 1790]

One leaf containing a handwritten list of books generally on ethics and moral philosophy, though no subject is identified. Entries contain the author's last name and abbreviated title. The page is inscribed "Paine," likely referring to Robert Treat Paine (Harvard AB 1792), and the verso has a fragment of a student essay on the theme "An undevout astronomer is mad," signed "Paine."