If anyone here is looking for a good overview of 'the liberal arts', I cannot more highly suggest The Harvard Classics, specifically the 15-minute a day reading

If anyone here is looking for a good overview of 'the liberal arts', I cannot more highly suggest The Harvard Classics, specifically the 15-minute a day reading guide : https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120612_1 https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120612_1 For example: Jan 23rd's reading is on Pascal and the art of persuasion: "Pascal, the keen-minded philosopher and mathematician, fathomed the human traits of man's nature with the same accurate measurements which made him famous in the realm of geometry. Read his searching analysis of man's conceit." Though the year's effort is not necessarily an ethics course, per se, the sum is a fantastic grounding in ethics (among many others). When I did the full year, I could not help but look up the authors and works in more detail on wikipedia and google. Delving in further, even for just another 15 minutes a day, really helped me 'suck out marrow' from the works. Especially since the guide was compiled at the end of the gilded age and before the wars and post-modern life, comparing it's view to today's is unavoidable and fascinating. Part of 'ethics' is mulling things over a lot, and The Harvard Classics is one of the best jumping off points for that out there. It's free, excellently curated, time tested, and quick.