Ethics through history : an introduction / Terence Irwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irwin, Terence, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--History.

Ethics.

Philosophers--History.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

What is the human good? What makes an action right? How can we know what is good or right? Is morality a matter of virtues or consequences? Can morality be rationally justified? 'Ethics Through History' tells the story of how great philosophers have tried to answer the key questions of moral thought, from Socrates to the 20th century.

Contents:

Introduction

Socrates: The Choice of Lives

Plato

Aristotle

Scepticism

Epicurus : Happiness as Pleasure

The Stoics : Happiness as Virtue

Christian Belief and Moral Philosophy : Augustine

Aquinas

Scotus and Ockham

Morality and Social Human Nature Suarez and Grotius

Hobbes : Natural Law without Social Human Nature

Voluntarism, Naturalism, and Moral Realism : Pufendorf, Shaftesbury, Cudworth, and Clarke

Sentimentalism : A Non-Rational Ground for Morality: Hutcheson and Hume

Rationalism : A Rational Ground for Morality: Butler, Price, and Reid

Kant and Some Critics

Schopenhauer : Kant's Insights and Errors

Hegel : Beyond Kantian Morality

Nietzsche : Against Kant and Morality

Utilitarianism : Mill and Sidgwick

Beyond Kantian and Utilitarian Morality : An Idealist Alternative Green and Bradley

Meta-Ethics : Objectivity and Its Critics

Utilitarianism and Its Critics : Some Further Questions.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 16, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-189204-1

0-19-259781-7

0-19-259782-5