The Moral Life brings together an extensive and varied collection ofclassical and contemporary readings on ethical theory and practice. Usingliterary works (33 in all) as touchstones, Pojman enlivens and makes concretethe ethical theory or applied issue being addressed in each chapter. Works byHugo, Melvill, Tolstoy, Camus, LeGuin, and Styron among others, lead studentsinto philosophical concepts and issues such as relativism, utilitarianism,virtue ethics, the meaning of life, freedom, sex, love and marriage, andenvironmental ethics. Once introduced, these ideas and issues are developedfurther through readings by philosophers such as Aristotle, Kant, Sartre,Bernard Williams, and Mary Anne Warren. Pojman has also balanced his selectionof readings so that more weight is given to personal ethics (which is oftenignored or minimized in the study of ethics) that to the more social dimensionof ethics.Pojman's insightful editing provides for a smooth flow of ideas between theliterary and philosophical works. His part and chapter introductions clearly tietogether the wide variety of philosophical and literary selections. In addition,he provides thoughtful study questions at the end of each reading selection.Ideal for introduction to ethics courses, The Moral Life sets before thestudent an engaging entry into personal and social ethics. The literary worksprovide powerful particularities that serve both as reinforcers andcounter-examples to the ethical discussions by the philosophers. Here literatureprovides a complement to, but not a substitute for, philosophicalanalysis.