A History of Western EthicsCharlotte B. Becker This newly revised and updated edition of A History of Western Ethics is a coherent and accessible overview of the most important figures and influential ideas of the history of ethics in the Western philosophical tradition. |
Contents
Hellenistic Ethics | 19 |
Early Medieval Ethics | 43 |
Renaissance Ethics | 61 |
Seventeenth and EighteenthCentury Ethics | 79 |
NineteenthCentury British Ethics | 95 |
NineteenthCentury Continental Ethics | 115 |
TwentiethCentury AngloAmerican Ethics | 139 |
Glossary | 153 |
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About the Contributors | 199 |
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