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BOOK COVER 1 TITLE 4 COPYRIGHT 5 CONTENTS 6 INTRODUCTION 9 CHAPTER 1 THE NATURE AND ORIGINS OF ETHICS 18 THE INTRODUCTION OF MORAL CODES 19 MYTHICAL ACCOUNTS 19 PROBLEMS OF DIVINE ORIGIN 22 PREHUMAN ETHICS 23 NONHUMAN BEHAVIOUR 23 KINSHIP AND RECIPROCITY 25 ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHICS 29 CHAPTER 2 ETHICS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 33 THE MIDDLE EAST 33 INDIA 37 CHINA 43 ANCIENT GREECE 46 SOCRATES 48 PLATO 50 ARISTOTLE 54 LATER GREEK AND ROMAN ETHICS 58 THE STOICS 58 THE EPICUREANS 60 ETHICS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 62 SAINT AUGUSTINE 67 CHAPTER 3 THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION 69 SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS AND THE SCHOLASTICS 69 THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION 76 NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI 77 THE FIRST PROTESTANTS 77 CHAPTER 4 THE 17TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY: BRITAIN 80 THOMAS HOBBES 80 THE EARLY INTUITIONISTS 85 THE MORAL SENSE SCHOOL 88 JOSEPH BUTLER 90 FRANCIS HUTCHESON AND DAVID HUME 92 RICHARD PRICE AND THOMAS REID 96 UTILITARIANISM 96 WILLIAM PALEY 97 JEREMY BENTHAM 97 JOHN STUART MILL 98 HENRY SIDGWICK 99 CHAPTER 5 THE 17TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY: THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT 102 BENEDICT DE SPINOZA 102 GOTT FRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ 105 JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 106 IMMANUEL KANT 108 GEORG WILHELM FRI

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Brian Duignan
Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing
Published
2011
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction

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