TY - BOOK AU - MacIntyre,Alasdair TI - SHORT HISTORY OF ETHICS: History of moral philosophy from the Homeric age to the twentieth century T2 - Fields of philosophy -- Routledge Classics SN - 9780415287494 U1 - 170.9 PY - 2012////01/01 CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Ethics KW - Ethics -- history N1 - What is right ? What is wrong ? How do we decide ? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. A Short History of Ethics is widely acknowledged to be the perfect introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful yet exceptionally complete history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times. In clear and readable prose, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the finest living philosophers, leads the reader towards a greater understanding of what lies behind our ethical decisions; Contents: The philosophical point of the history of ethics -- The prephilosophical history of "good" and the transition to philosophy -- The Sophists and Socrates -- Plato : The Gorgias -- Plato : the Republic -- Postscript to Plato -- Aristotle's Ethics -- Postscript to Greek ethics -- Christianity -- Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Spinoza -- New values -- The British eighteenth-century argument -- The French eighteenth-century argument -- Kant -- Hegel and Marx -- Kierkegaard to Nietzsche -- Reformers, utilitarians, idealists -- Modern moral philosophy ER -