| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Socrates: The Choice of Lives -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Scepticism -- Epicurus : Happiness as Pleasure -- The Stoics : Happiness as Virtue -- Christian Belief and Moral Philosophy : Augustine -- Aquinas -- Scotus and Ockham -- Morality and Social Human Nature Suarez and Grotius -- Hobbes : Natural Law without Social Human Nature -- Voluntarism, Naturalism, and Moral Realism : Pufendorf, Shaftesbury, Cudworth, and Clarke -- Sentimentalism : A Non-Rational Ground for Morality: Hutcheson and Hume -- Rationalism : A Rational Ground for Morality: Butler, Price, and Reid -- Kant and Some Critics -- Schopenhauer : Kant’s Insights and Errors -- Hegel : Beyond Kantian Morality -- Nietzsche : Against Kant and Morality -- Utilitarianism : Mill and Sidgwick -- Beyond Kantian and Utilitarian Morality : An Idealist Alternative Green and Bradley -- Meta-Ethics : Objectivity and Its Critics -- Utilitarianism and Its Critics : Some Further Questions |
| Summary |
What is the human good? What makes an action right? How can we know what is good or right? Is morality a matter of virtues or consequences? Can morality be rationally justified? Ethics Through History tells the story of how great philosophers have tried to answer the key questions of moral thought, from Socrates to the twentieth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Ethics -- History
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Philosophers -- History
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Ethics.
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Philosophers.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192597816 |
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0192597817 |
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0192597825 |
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9780192597823 |
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