Historical Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Introduction. I. CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS. 1. Plato (427-347 B.C.) fromEuthydemus and The Republic. 2. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) fromNicomachean Ethics. II. CLASSICAL DEVELOPMENTS. 3. Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)Letter to Menoeceus. 4. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 B.C.-65 A.D.) fromOf a Happy Life. 5. Epictetus (55-135 A.D.) fromThe Manual. 6. Sextus Empirixus (fl. c. 200 A.D.) fromOutlines of PyrrhonismandAgainst the Ethicists. 7. Plotinus (205-269 A.D.) fromEnneads 1.7 & V.1. III. MEDIEVAL DEVELOPMENTS. 8. St. Aurelius Augustine (354-430) fromThe Happy Life. 9. Ancius Boethius (480-524) fromThe Consolation of Philosophy. 10. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) fromTreatise on Happiness, IV. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS. 11. Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) fromThe Complaint of Peace. 12. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1697) fromLeviathan. 13. John Locke (1632-1704) fromEssay Concerning Civil Government. 14. David Hume (1711-1776) fromAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. 15. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) fromMetaphysical Foundations of Morals. 16. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) fromUtilitarianism and Civilization. V. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES. 17. George Edward Moore fromPrinciples of Ethics(1903). 18. Alfred Jules Ayer fromLanguage, Truth, and Logic(1936). 19. John Rawls (Rule Utilitarianism) fromTwo Concepts of Rules(1955). 20. J.J.C. Smart (Act Utilitarianism) fromExtreme and Restricted Utilitarianism(1956). 21. John Rawls from ATheory of Justice(1971). 22. Alan Gewirth, fromReason and Morality(1978). 23. Dorothy Emmet, fromThe Moral Prism(1979). 24. Gilbert Harman, fromRelativistic Ethics; Morality as Politics(1980). 25. Alasdair MacIntyre fromAfter Virtue(1984).Wagner, Michael F. is the author of 'Historical Introduction to Moral Philosophy' with ISBN 9780136014515 and ISBN 0136014518.