Alasdair Macintyre

A Short History of Ethics

A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Second Edition

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Produktbeschreibung

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book "thirty years on" and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780268203993
• ISBN-10: 0268203997
• Artikelnr.: 69919760

Autorenporträt

Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics at London Metropolitan University and Rev John A. O'Brien Senior Research Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, A Short History of Ethics, and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Philosophical Point of the History of Ethics 2 The Prephilosophical
History of "Good" and the Transition to Philosophy 3 The Sophists and
Socrates 4 Plato: The Gorgias 5 Plato: The Republic 6 Postscript to Plato 7
Aristotle's Ethics 8 Postscript to Greek Ethics 9 Christianity 10 Luther,
Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Spinoza 11 New Values 12 The British
Eighteenth-Century Argument 13 The French Eighteenth-Century Argument 14
Kant 15 Hegel and Marx 16 Kierkegaard to Nietzsche 17 Reformers,
Utilitarians, Idealists 18 Modern Moral Philosophy