The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
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The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy

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The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy

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With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic thought, perfectionism, pragmatism, idealism and intuitionism are all explored, as are figures including Aristotle, Boethius, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Rawls, as well as numerous key ideas and schools of thought. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, drawing on the latest research to offer rigorous analysis of the canonical figures and movements of this branch of philosophy. The volume provides a comprehensive yet philosophically advanced resource for students and teachers alike as they approach, and refine their understanding of, the central issues in moral thought.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781107033054
eBook ISBN
9781108215558
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Ethics before Socrates
  10. 2 Socrates and Sophists
  11. 3 Plato
  12. 4 Aristotle
  13. 5 Epicureanism and Hedonism
  14. 6 Stoicism
  15. 7 Ancient Skepticism
  16. 8 Neo-Platonism
  17. 9 Early Christian Ethics
  18. 10 Boethius, Abelard and Anselm
  19. 11 Medieval Jewish Ethics
  20. 12 Moral Philosophy in the Medieval Islamicate World
  21. 13 ā€œChristian Aristotelianismā€? Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
  22. 14 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham
  23. 15 Humanism
  24. 16 The Protestant Reformation
  25. 17 Descartesā€™s Provisional Morality
  26. 18 Hobbes
  27. 19 The Cambridge Platonists
  28. 20 Bayle
  29. 21 Leibniz
  30. 22 Spinoza
  31. 23 Pascal
  32. 24 Locke and Butler
  33. 25 Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and the Moral Sense
  34. 26 Hume
  35. 27 Smith and Bentham
  36. 28 Rousseau
  37. 29 Rationalism and Perfectionism
  38. 30 Kant
  39. 31 Fichte
  40. 32 Hegel
  41. 33 Mill
  42. 34 Schopenhauer
  43. 35 Kierkegaard
  44. 36 American Transcendentalism
  45. 37 Nietzsche
  46. 38 Marxism
  47. 39 Sidgwick
  48. 40 Pragmatism
  49. 41 British Idealism
  50. 42 Ethical Intuitionism
  51. 43 Husserl and Phenomenological Ethics
  52. 44 Ethics in Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis
  53. 45 Noncognitivism: From the Vienna Circle to the Present Day
  54. 46 The Frankfurt School
  55. 47 Heidegger
  56. 48 Sartre
  57. 49 French Ethical Philosophy since the 1960s
  58. 50 Wittgensteinā€™s Ethics and Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy
  59. 51 Anti-Theory: Anscombe, Foot and Williams
  60. 52 Discourse Ethics
  61. 53 Decision Theory
  62. 54 Rawls
  63. Index

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