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Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Nature and Origins of Ethics

The Introduction of Moral Codes

Mythical Accounts Code of Hammurabi Problems of Divine Origin

Prehuman Ethics

Nonhuman Behaviour Kinship and Reciprocity

Anthropology and Ethics

Chapter 2: Ethics in the Ancient World

The Middle East India

Ahimsa

China Ancient Greece

Socrates Plato Aristotle

Later Greek and Roman Ethics

The Stoics The Epicureans

Ethics in the New Testament

Moral Theology

Saint Augustine

Chapter 3: The Middle Ages to the Protestant Reformation

Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics

Natural Law

The Renaissance and the Reformation

Niccolò Machiavelli The First Protestants

Chapter 4: The 17th to the 19th Century: Britain

Thomas Hobbes

Social Contract

The Early Intuitionists The Moral Sense School Joseph Butler

Conscience

Francis Hutcheson and David Hume Richard Price and Thomas Reid Utilitarianism

William Paley Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Henry Sidgwick

Chapter 5: The 17th to the 19th Century: the European Continent

Benedict de Spinoza Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The Problem of Evil

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Karl Marx Friedrich Nietzsche

Chapter 6: Contemporary Ethics

Metaethics

G.E. Moore and the Naturalistic Fallacy Contemporary Intuitionism Emotivism Existentialism Universal Prescriptivism Recent Developments in Metaethics

Moral Realism Kantian Constructivism Projectivism and Expressivism Ethics and Reasons for Action

Normative Ethics

Varieties of Consequentialism Objections to Consequentialism Prima Facie Duties John Rawls’s Theory of Justice Rights Theories Natural Law Ethics Virtue Ethics Feminist Ethics Ethical Egoism

Applied Ethics

Equality Animals The Environment War and Peace Just War Abortion, Euthanasia, and the Value of Human Life Bioethics

Summary and Conclusion

Glossary Bibliography Index