A short history of ethics : a history of moral philosophy from the Homeric Age to the twentieth century /

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"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 conc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacIntyre, Alasdair C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Ethics > History.
Morale > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Ethics.
Ethiek.
Ética (história)
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The philosophical point of the history of ethics
  • The prephilosophical history of "good" and the transition to philosophy
  • The Sophists and Socrates
  • Plato: the Gorgias
  • Plato: the Republic
  • Postscript to Plato
  • Aristotle's Ethics
  • Postscript to Greek ethics
  • Christianity
  • Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Spinoza
  • New values
  • The British eighteenth-century argument
  • The French eighteenth-century argument
  • Kant
  • Hegel and Marx
  • Kierkegaard to Nietzsche
  • Reformers, Utilitarians, Idealists
  • Modern moral philosophy.

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