Some non-utilitarian readings
I was interested in philosophy for quite a while because i) I thought utilitarianism was interesting but also ii) I wanted to see what other schools of thought were out there. For a while I was kind of confused since the other schools I heard about at first (e.g. Kantianism and virtue ethics) seemed to be really vague and I wasn’t sure I saw anyone who actually believed them. [I still think that’s largely true.]
But over time, I’ve read some things that I felt helped me understand various nonutilitarian perspectives more and generally enriched my understanding of philosophy. Here are a few I liked (organized a bit by theme). I don’t claim to be super well-read; these are just some I learned from. A bunch are encyclopedia articles, some papers, some books.
It would be cool if others could share non-utilitarian writings they like!
Substantive Ethics
Zamir and Medina, Law, Economics, and Morality [Good exposition of deontology]
Campbell Brown, “Consequentialize This”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/theory-bioethics/
Beauchamp and Childress, “Principles of Biomedical Ethics” (know only second-hand)
John E. Roemer, Theories of Distributive Justice
Barbara Herman, The Practice of Moral Judgement (Kantianism)
Rosalind Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics
Nozick, “Anarchy, State, and Utopia”
G.A. Cohen, Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality
G.A. Cohen, Rescuing Conservatism: A Defense of Existing Value
Special Obligations, esp. section on professional obligations
Just War Theory IEP
Methodology of Ethics
Alan Thomas “Should Generalism be our Regulative Ideal?”
Horgan and Timmons “What Does the Frame Problem Tell us About Moral Normativity?”
Anscombe,”On Brute Facts”
Chapelle ed., Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics
Sprenger and Hartmann, Bayesian Philosophy of Science (actually haven’t read yet but seems very relevant to ideas like “reflective equilibrium”).
Have you read Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius? I highly recommend that book for you judging by the books you shared here.