A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century by Alasdair MacIntyre
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A Short History of Ethics
Summary
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.
A Short History of Ethics Summary
Table of Contents
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
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GOR001414254
9780415040273
0415040272
A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century by Alasdair MacIntyre
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1967-03-31
288
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