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Introduction to Ethical Studies: an Open Source Reader by Lee Archie by John G Introduction to Ethical Studies An Open Source Reader Lee Archie John G. Archie Introduction to Ethical Studies: An Open Source Reader by Lee Archie by John G. Archie Version 0.11 Edition Published August, 2003 Copyright © 2003 by Lee Archie; John G. Archie GDFL The current version, Version 0.11, of this open source textbook in philosophy is a work-in-progress and is being released in draft form. The collaborators would be grateful for corrections or other suggestions to this preliminary draft. Please address comments to [email protected] . Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. 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