A Short History of Ethics: a History of Moral Philosophy From the Homeric Age To the Twentieth Century

Chapters

1. PREFACE
2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
3. CHAPTER 1: THE PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF THE HISTORY OF ETHICS
4. CHAPTER 2: THE PREPHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF “GOOD” AND THE TRANSITION TO PHILOSOPHY
5. CHAPTER 3: THE SOPHISTS AND SOCRATES
6. CHAPTER 4: PLATO: THE GORGIAS
7. CHAPTER 5: PLATO: THE REPUBLIC
8. CHAPTER 6: POSTSCRIPT TO PLATO
9. CHAPTER 7: ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS
10. CHAPTER 8: POSTSCRIPT TO GREEK ETHICS
11. CHAPTER 9: CHRISTIANITY
12. CHAPTER 10: LUTHER, MACHIAVELLI, HOBBES, AND SPINOZA
13. CHAPTER 11 NEW VALUES
14. CHAPTER 12: THE BRITISH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARGUMENT
15. CHAPTER 13: THE FRENCH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARGUMENT
16. CHAPTER 14: KANT
17. CHAPTER 15: HEGEL AND MARX
18. CHAPTER 16: KIERKEGAARD TO NIETZSCHE
19. CHAPTER 17: REFORMERS, UTILITARIANS, IDEALISTS
20. NOTES