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The history of Western ethics
Publisher
Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Nature and Origins of Ethics
The Introduction of Moral Codes
Mythical Accounts
Code of Hammurabi
Problems of Divine Origin
Prehuman Ethics
Nonhuman Behaviour
Kinship and Reciprocity
Anthropology and Ethics
Chapter 2. Ethics in the Ancient World
The Middle East
India
Ahimsa
China
Ancient Greece
Socrates
Plato
Aritotle
Later Greek and Roman Ethics
The Stoics
The Epicureans
Ethics in the New Testament
Moral Theology
Saint Augustine
Chapter 3. The Middle Ages to the Protestant Reformation
Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics
Natural Law
The Renaissance and the Reformation
Niccolò Machiavelli
The First Protestants
Chapter 4. The 17th to the 19th Century: Britain
Thomas Hobbes
Social Contract
The Early Intuitionists
The Moral Sense School
Joseph Butler
Conscience
Francis Hutcheson and David Hume
Richard Price and Thomas Reid
Utilitarianism
William Paley
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Henry Sidgwick
Chapter 5. The 17th to the 19th Century: the European Continent
Benedict de Spinoza
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Problem of Evil
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Immanuel Kant
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Karl Marx
Friedrich Nietzsche
Chapter 6. Contemporary Ethics
Metaethics
G.E. Moore and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Contemporary Intuitionism
Emotivism
Existentialism
Universal Prescriptivism
Recent Developments in Metaethics
Moral Realism
Kantian Constructivism
Projectivism and Expressivism
Ethics and Reasons for Action
Normative Ethics
Varieties of Consequentialism
Objections to Consequentialism
Prima Facie Duties
John Rawls's Theory of Justice
Rights Theories
Natural Law Ethics
Virtue Ethics
Feminist Ethics
Ethical Egoism
Applied Ethics
Equality
Animals
The Environment
War and Peace
Just War
Abortion, Euthanasia, and the Value of Human Life
Bioethics
Summary and Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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9781615303014
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