A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century

by Macintyre, Alasdair

• ISBN13: 9780268017590
• ISBN10: 026801759X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(14)
Preface to the first edition	xxi
1 The Philosophical Point of the History of Ethics	1	(4)
2 The Prephilosophical History of "Good" and the Transition to Philosophy	5	(9)
3 The Sophists and Socrates	14	(12)
4 Plato: The Gorgias	26	(7)
5 Plato: The Republic	33	(18)
6 Postscript to Plato	51	(6)
7 Aristotle's Ethics	57	(27)
8 Postscript to Greek Ethics	84	(26)
9 Christianity	110	(11)
10 Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Spinoza	121	(25)
11 New Values	146	(11)
12 The British Eighteenth-Century Argument	157	(21)
13 The French Eighteenth-Century Argument	178	(12)
14 Kant	190	(9)
15 Hegel and Marx	199	(16)
16 Kierkegaard to Nietzsche	215	(12)
17 Reformers, Utilitarians, Idealists	227	(22)
18 Modern Moral Philosophy	249