A Short History of Ethics

Abstract

Preface, 1. The Philosophical Point of the History of Ethics, 2. The Prephilosophical History 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, Utilitarians, Idealists, 18. Modern Moral Philosophy