A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century by Alasdair MacIntyre - PDF Free

A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century Summary

In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. He emphasizes the importance of a historical context to moral concepts and ideas. MacIntyre illustrates the relevance of philosophical queries on moral concepts enabling the reader to understand the importance of a historical account of ethics. Contents Preface to the second edition Preface 1. The Philosophical Point of the the History of Ethics 2. The Prephilosophical History of of “Good” and the Transition to Philosophy 3. The Sophists and Socrates 4. Plato: The Gorgias 5. Plato: The Republic 6. Postscript to Plato 7. Aristotle’s Ethics 8. Postscript to Greek Ethics 9. Christianity 10. Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Spinoza 11. New Values 12. The British Eighteenth-Century Argument 13. The French Eighteenth-Century Argument 14. Kant 15. Hegel and Marx 16. Kierkegaard to Nietzsche 17. Reformers, Utopians, Idealists 18. Modern Moral Philosophy