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Ethics : the key thinkers / edited by Tom Angier.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022Distributor: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350107786
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics.DDC classification:
  • 170 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1031 .E77 2022
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued in print: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Digital resource published 2022.
Contents:
Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Tom Angier -- 1. Plato / Tom Angier -- 2. Aristotle / Timothy Chappell -- 3. The Stoics / Jacob Klein -- 4. Aquinas / Vivian Boland O.P. -- 5. Hume / Peter Millican -- 6. Kant / Ralph Walker -- 7. Hegel / Kenneth Westphal -- 8. Marx / Sean Sayers -- 9. Mill / Krister Bykvist -- 10. Nietzsche / Ken Gemes and Christoph Schuringa -- 11. MacIntyre / David Solomon -- 12. Chinese Ethics / Alba Cercas Curry -- 13. Indian Ethics / Christopher Bartley -- 14. African Ethics / Thaddeus Metz -- Index.
Summary: "Ethics: The Key Thinkers surveys the history of Western moral philosophy, guiding students through the work and ideas of the field's most important figures, from Plato to MacIntyre. With entries written by leading contemporary scholars, the book covers the following thinkers: Plato; Aristotle; The Stoics; Thomas Aquinas; David Hume; Immanuel Kant; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; J.S. Mill; Friedrich Nietzsche; Alasdair MacIntyre. The book explores the contribution of each thinker in turn, narrating how they have changed the shape of ethical theory as a whole."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Tom Angier -- 1. Plato / Tom Angier -- 2. Aristotle / Timothy Chappell -- 3. The Stoics / Jacob Klein -- 4. Aquinas / Vivian Boland O.P. -- 5. Hume / Peter Millican -- 6. Kant / Ralph Walker -- 7. Hegel / Kenneth Westphal -- 8. Marx / Sean Sayers -- 9. Mill / Krister Bykvist -- 10. Nietzsche / Ken Gemes and Christoph Schuringa -- 11. MacIntyre / David Solomon -- 12. Chinese Ethics / Alba Cercas Curry -- 13. Indian Ethics / Christopher Bartley -- 14. African Ethics / Thaddeus Metz -- Index.

"Ethics: The Key Thinkers surveys the history of Western moral philosophy, guiding students through the work and ideas of the field's most important figures, from Plato to MacIntyre. With entries written by leading contemporary scholars, the book covers the following thinkers: Plato; Aristotle; The Stoics; Thomas Aquinas; David Hume; Immanuel Kant; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; J.S. Mill; Friedrich Nietzsche; Alasdair MacIntyre. The book explores the contribution of each thinker in turn, narrating how they have changed the shape of ethical theory as a whole."-- Provided by publisher.

Also issued in print: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Digital resource published 2022.

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