| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 208 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Presocratic Greek ethics / Charles H. Kahn -- Classical Greek ethics / John M. Cooper -- Hellenistic ethics ; Roman ethics / A.A. Long -- Early medieval ethics / G. Scott Davis -- Late [sic] medieval ethics / Scott MacDonald -- Renaissance ethics / Jill Kraye -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ethics / J.B. Schneewind -- Nineteenth-century British ethics / Marcus G. Singer -- Nineteenth-century continental ethics / Richard Schacht -- Twentieth-century continental ethics / William B. Schroeder -- Twentieth-century Anglo-American ethics / Alan Donagan. |
| Summary |
This newly revised and updated edition is a concise yet thorough survey of the long history of Western ethics. Written by distinguished scholars, each of the twelve essays offers an accessible overview of the most important figures and influential ideas in the history of ethics from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds to contemporary thought in the Anglo-American and Continental contexts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethics -- History.
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Ethics. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Becker, Lawrence C.
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Becker, Charlotte B., 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History of Western ethics. 2nd ed. New York ; London : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2003013106 |
| ISBN |
0203426932 (electronic book) |
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9780203426937 (electronic book) |
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0415968259 (Paper) |
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0415968240 |
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