The Moral Life brings together an extensive and varied collection of 87 classical and contemporary readings on ethical theory and practice. Using literary works as touchstones, Pojman makes concrete the ethical theory or applied issue being addressed in each chapter. Literary works by Hugo, Hawthorne, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Huxley, Orwell, Camus, LeGuin, Golding, Styron, and many others lead students into philosophical concepts and issues. These ideas are developed further through readings by philosophers such as Aristotle, Kant, Sartre, Bernard Williams, and Mary Anne Warren.