A Short History of Ethics

Höfundur: Alasdair MacIntyre (Útgáfa: 1)
A Short History of Ethics

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A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. MacIntyre emphasises the importance of a historical context to moral concepts and ideas showing the relevance of philosophical queries on moral concepts and the importance of a historical account of ethics.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781134688272
Print ISBN
9780415287487
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Alasdair MacIntyre
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2003-07-08
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2
Flokkar
Heimspeki

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Preface to the first edition
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Index