The Story of Ethics: Fulfilling Our Human NatureThis book provides readers with an excellent introduction to the history of ethics. The authors examine the ethical philosophies of prominent Western thinkers--from the ancients through the twentieth century--within the context of their views of human nature and human fulfillment. They do so in a way that is both accessible and engaging without sacrificing the profundity of the issues raised. A five-part organization covers the Homeric tradition, the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Christianity, Neoplatonism, Augustine, the Euthyphro problem, revolutions and reformations, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hegelianism and Materialism, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Soren Kierkegaard, Darwinism, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. E. Moore, A.J. Ayer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Elizabeth Anscombe, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Carol Gilligan, Richard Rorty, and a conclusion about human nature, morality & fulfillment. For individuals who want to better formulate their own answers and frame their own decisions, both large and small, within the all important context of what it means to flourish as a human being. |
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... thinkers such as Augustine and Aquinás , enlightenment thinkers such as Kant , late modern thinkers such as Marx , Mill , and Kierkegaard , and contemporary thinkers such as Rawls , Hare , and MacIntyre . In contrast , revolutionaries ...
... thinkers have challenged this entire approach to ethics , and our journey would not be complete without a look at their revolutionary views . Thinkers such as Moore , Ayer , and Rorty have severed ethics from the phi- losophy of human ...
... thinkers sought to buttress was not unlike the one discussed by the medieval thinkers . If Hobbes did not think us ca- pable of good will , he nonetheless thought us capable of willing good things for others ( even if , ultimately , for ...