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

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• PREFACE
• PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
• CHAPTER 1: THE PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF THE HISTORY OF ETHICS 
• CHAPTER 2: THE PREPHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF “GOOD” AND THE TRANSITION TO PHILOSOPHY
• CHAPTER 3: THE SOPHISTS AND SOCRATES
• CHAPTER 4: PLATO: THE GORGIAS
• CHAPTER 5: PLATO: THE REPUBLIC
• CHAPTER 6: POSTSCRIPT TO PLATO
• CHAPTER 7: ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS
• CHAPTER 8: POSTSCRIPT TO GREEK ETHICS
• CHAPTER 9: CHRISTIANITY
• CHAPTER 10: LUTHER, MACHIAVELLI, HOBBES, AND SPINOZA
• CHAPTER 11 NEW VALUES
• CHAPTER 12: THE BRITISH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARGUMENT 
• CHAPTER 13: THE FRENCH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARGUMENT 
• CHAPTER 14: KANT
• CHAPTER 15: HEGEL AND MARX
• CHAPTER 16: KIERKEGAARD TO NIETZSCHE
• CHAPTER 17: REFORMERS, UTILITARIANS, IDEALISTS
• CHAPTER 18: MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY
• NOTES