6 edition of A Short History of Ethics found in the catalog.
Published
March 7, 2006
by Routledge
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Written in English
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Number of Pages | 304 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL7490154M |
| ISBN 10 | 0415287499 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780415287494 |
University of Kansas, Fall Philosophy History of Ethics Ben Eggleston—[email protected] History of Ethics. Description: A study of four of the most influential works in the history of moral philosophy: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature, Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, and John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism. Ethics is the branch of philosophy that examines right and wrong moral behavior, moral concepts (such as justice, virtue, duty) and moral language. Various ethical theories pose various answers to the question "What is the greatest good?" and elaborate a complete set .
A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Brand: Taylor & Francis. The first edition of MacIntyre's A Short History of Ethics was widely read and translated into several languages. Since its publication in , MacIntyre has continued to investigate philosophical and ethical issues, and comes to the second edition with thirty more years of questions and answers, and a slightly different viewpoint. His additions and corrections to the first edition, appear in Pages:
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