Published by Geoffrey Bles, London, 1964
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. Overview, history, & critique of ethical systems, including the ideas of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics & Epicureans, Christianity, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Comte, Sartre, Dewey, Bergson. Maritain was an important moral philosopher and defender of the idea of natural law, strongly informed by Thomas Aquinas. By the time of this book's publication, had retired from teaching philosophy at Princeton and returned to his native France. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first British edition. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor rubbing, light tanning; ink name & date on free endsheet. Text clean; xii, 468 pages; index. Size: Large Octavo.