Terence Irwin

Ethics Through History (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is the human good? What are the primary virtues that make a good person? What makes an action right? Must we try to maximize good consequences? How can we know what is right and good? Can morality be rationally justified? In Ethics Through History, Terence Irwin addresses such fundamental questions, making these central debates intelligible to readers without an extensive background in philosophy. He provides a historical and philosophical discussion of major questions and key philosophers in the history of ethics, in the tradition that begins with Socrates onwards. Irwin covers ancient, medieval, and modern moral philosophers whose views have helped to form the agenda for contemporary ethical theory, paying attention to the strengths and weaknesses of their respective positions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192597823
• Artikelnr.: 58869553

Autorenporträt

Terence Irwin is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He obtained his MA from Oxford and his PhD from Princeton University. He has taught at Harvard and Cornell. He is the author of The Development of Ethics (Oxford 2007-9), among numerous other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: Socrates: the Choice of Lives
* 3: Plato
* 4: Aristotle
* 5: Scepticism
* 6: Epicurus: Happiness as Pleasure
* 7: The Stoics: Happiness as Virtue
* 8: Christian Belief and Moral Philosophy: Augustine
* 9: Aquinas
* 10: Scotus and Ockham
* 11: Morality and Social Human Nature: Suarez and Grotius
* 12: Hobbes: Natural Law without Social Human Nature
* 13: Voluntarism, Naturalism and Moral Realism: Pufendorf,
Shaftesbury, Cudworth, and Clarke
* 14: Sentimentalism: A Non-Rational Ground for Morality. Hutcheson and
Hume
* 15: Rationalism: a Rational Ground for Morality. Butler, Price, and
Reid
* 16: Kant and Some Critics
* 17: Schopenhauer: Kant's Insights and Errors
* 18: Hegel: Beyond Kantian Morality
* 19: Nietzsche: Against Kant and Morality
* 20: Utilitarianism: Mill and Sidgwick
* 21: Beyond Kantian and Utilitarian Morality: an Idealist Alternative.
Green and Bradley
* 22: Meta-ethics: Objectivity and its Critics
* 23: Utilitarianism and its Critics: Some Further Questions