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

MacIntyre, Alasdair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071001774X ISBN 13: 9780710017741

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1967

Synopsis

A Short History of Ethics is a history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to the present day. It enables the reader to place specific texts in moral philosophy in a historical perspective by showing the debt moral philosophers owe to their predecessors and the historical development of changes in the moral concepts.

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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: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 071001774X
• ISBN 13: 9780710017741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288