The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy

With Fifty-four Chapters Charting The Development Of Moral Philosophy In The Western World, This Volume Examines The Key Thinkers And Texts And Their Influence On The History Of Moral Thought From The Pre-socratics To The Present Day. Topics Including Epicureanism, Humanism, Jewish And Arabic Thought, Perfectionism, Pragmatism, Idealism And Intuitionism Are All Explored, As Are Figures Including Aristotle, Boethius, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre And Rawls, As Well As Numerous Key Ideas And Schools Of Thought. Chapters Are Written By Leading Experts In The Field, Drawing On The Latest Research To Offer Rigorous Analysis Of The Canonical Figures And Movements Of This Branch Of Philosophy. The Volume Provides A Comprehensive Yet Philosophically Advanced Resource For Students And Teachers Alike As They Approach, And Refine Their Understanding Of, The Central Issues In Moral Thought. Edited By Sacha Golob, King's College London, Jens Timmermann, University Of St Andrews, Scotland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Half-title page Title page Copyright page Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Ethics before Socrates 2 Socrates and Sophists 3 Plato 4 Aristotle 5 Epicureanism and Hedonism 6 Stoicism 7 Ancient Skepticism 8 Neo-Platonism 9 Early Christian Ethics 10 Boethius, Abelard and Anselm 11 Medieval Jewish Ethics 12 Moral Philosophy in the Medieval Islamicate World 13 “Christian Aristotelianism”? Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas 14 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham 15 Humanism 16 The Protestant Reformation 17 Descartes’s Provisional Morality 18 Hobbes 19 The Cambridge Platonists 20 Bayle 21 Leibniz 22 Spinoza 23 Pascal 24 Locke and Butler 25 Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and the Moral Sense 26 Hume 27 Smith and Bentham 28 Rousseau 29 Rationalism and Perfectionism 30 Kant 31 Fichte 32 Hegel 33 Mill 34 Schopenhauer 35 Kierkegaard 36 American Transcendentalism 37 Nietzsche 38 Marxism 39 Sidgwick 40 Pragmatism 41 British Idealism 42 Ethical Intuitionism 43 Husserl and Phenomenological Ethics 44 Ethics in Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis 45 Noncognitivism: From the Vienna Circle to the Present Day 46 The Frankfurt School 47 Heidegger 48 Sartre 49 French Ethical Philosophy since the 1960s 50 Wittgenstein’s Ethics and Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy 51 Anti-Theory: Anscombe, Foot and Williams 52 Discourse Ethics 53 Decision Theory 54 Rawls Index Essential for philosophy students and teachers alike, this rich but accessible volume brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide an overview of Western moral thought. Driven by cutting-edge research, its fifty-four chapters deliver a clear and detailed analysis of the key schools and thinkers who defined Western moral philosophy.