List Books » Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
Authors: Alasdair C. MacIntyre
ISBN-13: 9780268017590, ISBN-10: 026801759X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: 2nd Edition
In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. He emphasizes the importance of a historical context to moral concepts and ideas. MacIntyre illustrates the relevance of philosophical queries on moral concepts enabling the reader to understand the importance of a historical account of ethics.
Preface | ||
Preface to the first edition | ||
1 | The Philosophical Point of the History of Ethics | 1 |
2 | The Prephilosophical History of "Good" and the Transition to Philosophy | 5 |
3 | The Sophists and Socrates | 14 |
4 | Plato: The Gorgias | 26 |
5 | Plato: The Republic | 33 |
6 | Postscript to Plato | 51 |
7 | Aristotle's Ethics | 57 |
8 | Postscript to Greek Ethics | 84 |
9 | Christianity | 110 |
10 | Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Spinoza | 121 |
11 | New Values | 146 |
12 | The British Eighteenth-Century Argument | 157 |
13 | The French Eighteenth-Century Argument | 178 |
14 | Kant | 190 |
15 | Hegel and Marx | 199 |
16 | Kierkegaard to Nietzsche | 215 |
17 | Reformers, Utilitarians, Idealists | 227 |
18 | Modern Moral Philosophy | 249 |