Moral Philosophy through the Ages

Description:

Description Introductory ethics textbook. This book takes a middle ground between the topical and historical approaches to Western ethics. The chapters are topically arranged, but preserve the flow of history in two ways. First, each chapter explains the historical development of the topic under consideration. Second, most chapters focus on a specific famous philosopher who championed a particular tradition, such as Aristotle, Locke, or Kant, and the chapters are chronologically ordered based on when these key philosophers lived.

subjects: ethics; morality; moral objectivism; moral relativism; virtue theory; divine command theory; natural law; duties; rights; utilitarianism; categorical imperative; emotivism,  Ethics

People: Platon,  Aristotle (384-322 B.C),  Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274),  Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679),  John Locke (1632-1704),  David Hume (1711-1776),  Immanuel Kant (1724-1804),  Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832),  John Stuart Mill (1806-1873),  Herbert Spencer (1820-1903),  Moore,  Ayer,  Baier