Western Ethics: An Historical Introduction - Hardcover

Arrington, Robert L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631194150 ISBN 13: 9780631194156

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

This volume provides a wide-ranging and lucid introducing to the major ethical theories found in the history of Western philosophy.

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This volume provides a wide-ranging and lucid introduction to the major ethical theories found in the history of Western philosophy.

The book begins with the ethical thought of Socrates and the Sophists in the fifth century BCE and concludes with the philosophy of Nietzsche at the end of the nineteenth century CE. An epilogue traces parallels between twentieth century ethical theories and those found in the previous history of the subject. Special attention is given to theories that have exerted considerable influence on contemporary ethics, namely those of Aristotle, Hobbes, Butler, Hume, Kant, and Mill.

It is an ideal text for all introductory courses in ethics and moral philosophy.

About the Author:

The author is Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. His publications in Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism (1990). He was co-editor (with H.J. Glock) of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigation (1991) and Wittgenstein and Quine (1996). He is the editor of the Companion to the Philosophers (Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0631194150
• ISBN 13: 9780631194156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448