Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960. — 380 p. "The work, in its present form, is intended for three kinds of reader: for the professional Greek scholar; for the large and increasing number of students of Greek philosophy and civilization who posess no Greek; and for any students of morals and society in general who may find this study of Greek values in relation to Greek...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1976. — 180 p. Greek society developed more rapidly than did its values or the presuppositions on which the values were based. By the end of the fifth century the Greeks faced serious problems, not because they had abandoned traditional values to which they needed to be recalled, but because they retained them in a situation far different from that in...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 308 p. — (Companions to Ancient Thought). — ISBN10: 0521381614, 13 978-0521381611. This collection of essays provides a sophisticated and accessible introduction to the moral theories of the ancient world. It covers the ethical theories of all the major philosophers and schools from the earliest times to the Hellenistic philosophers. A...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. – 227 p. This is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the 20th century. Moore’s ethical project, set out in his seminal text Principia Ethica, is to preserve common moral insight from skepticism and, in effect, persuade his readers to accept the objective character...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 841 p. The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 935 p. The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 276 p. — ISBN10: 1405155779; ISBN13: 978-1405155779. A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice. An accessible introduction to the history of ideas about justice; shows how complex ideas are...
Dordrecht; Boston: Reidel Publishing Company, 1982. — 222 p. — ISBN: 90-277-1301-4 Lefebvre has endeavored to represent moral cognitions in terms of the elementary equations of Boolean algebra, and on the basis of mathematical modeling has concluded that there exist only two major ethical systems whose differences turn on the fundamental structures connecting the categories of...
Routledge. 1995. — 166 p. — (International Library of Philosophy). — ISBN: 0-415-10436-X The moral theory of David Hume. Introduction: Outline of Hume’s Theory Some Predecessors: Hobbes, Shaftesbury, Clarke, Wollaston, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Butler Hume's Psychology of Action (Treatise II iii 3) Morality not Based on Reason (Treatise III I 1) Variants of Sentimentalism...
London: Routledge, 1995. 170 p. Introduction: outline of Hume's theory Some predecessors: Hobbes, Shaftesbury, Clarke, Wollaston, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Butler Hume's psychology of action Morality not based on reason Variants of sentimentalism The artificial virtues Justice and property The obligation of promises The artificiality of justice The origin of government and the...
University Press of America, 2016. - 275 p. This book has two objectives, one explicit and one implicit. The explicit objective is to explore the normative implications for both general and sexual ethics of the methodological and anthropological developments in Catholic tradition. The implicit objective is to stimulate dialogue in the Church about ethics, particularly sexual...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. — 165 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-539155-8 In Essays on the History of Ethics Michael Slote collects his essays that deal with aspects of both ancient and modern ethical thought and seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons and contrasts among different views. Arranged in chronological order of the philosopher under discussion, the...
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