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Best/Most Important Books in Ethics of the Past 200 Years So with over 600 votes, here were the 'top ten': 1. Mill, Utilitarianism  (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) 2. Rawls, A Theory of Justice  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 247–229 3. Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 312–149, loses to Rawls, A Theory of Justice by 313–146 4. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 317–165, loses to Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics by 221–210 5. Moore, Principia Ethica  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 364–114, loses to Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality by 232–211 6. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 342–129, loses to Moore, Principia Ethica by 228–205 7. Marx, The 1844 Manuscripts  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 356–111, loses to Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil by 209–176 8. Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 373–77, loses to Marx, The 1844 Manuscripts by 213–178 9. Hegel, Philosophy of Right  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 347–105, loses to Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by 187–185 10. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong  loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 378–60, loses to Hegel, Philosophy of Right by 194–169