| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xxii, 280 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1966, in series: Fields of philosophy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-272) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Ethics -- History.
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| ISBN |
026801759X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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