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

		Preface
		Preface to the First Edition
		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
		Notes
		Index

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