A Short History of Ethics - Softcover

Macintyre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684826771 ISBN 13: 9780684826776

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1996

Synopsis

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book "thirty years on" and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality.

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Review:

'Very powerful... this book is an impressive contribution to our endless argument about the meaning of ethical concepts,' - The Observer

From the Back Cover:

The author writes...'This history of moral philosophy which runs from the Greeks to contemporary Anglo-Saxon discussion is necessarily compressed and selective, but is intended to enable the general reader and the student to place particular texts in moral philosophy in an historical perspective. The function of this perspective is to clarify three kinds of historical and philosophical connection whose importance is often underrated. The first is a matter of the debts which moral philosophers owe to their predecessors; the second concerns the question of the nature of the moral concepts which furnish any moral philosopher with the objects of his enquiry upon moral concepts themselves and the extent to which the philosophical analysis of a concept may play a part in transforming or even discrediting it. A consequence of these preoccupations is that the book contains a higher proportion of purely philosophical enquiry than might be expected in an historical work.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684826771
• ISBN 13: 9780684826776
• Binding: Paperback