A Short History of Ethics
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
Published on 31. March 1967
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Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-415-04027-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Short History of Ethics is a history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to the present day. It enables the reader to place specific texts in moral philosophy in a historical perspective by showing the debt moral philosophers owe to their predecessors and the historical development of changes in the moral concepts.
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New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
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Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-04027-3 (9780415040273)
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Alasdair MacIntyre
A Short History of Ethics
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
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Content
Preface, 1. The Philosophical Point of the History of Ethics, 2. The Prephilosophical History of "Good" and the Transition to Philosophy, 3. The Sophists and Socrates, 4. Plato: The Gorgias, 5. Plato: The Republic, 6. Postscript to Plato, 7. Aristotle's Ethics, 8. Postscript to Greek Ethics, 9. Christianity, 10. Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Spinoza, 11. New Values, 12. The British Eighteenth-Century Argument, 13. The French Eighteenth-Century Argument, 14. Kant, 15. Hegel and Marx, 16. Kierkegaard to Nietzsche, 17. Reformers, Utilitarians, Idealists, 18. Modern Moral Philosophy