What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?

What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?
Author: Fran O'Rourke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780268037376

This is a volume of essays originally presented at University College Dublin in 2009 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Alasdair MacIntyre. What marks this collection is the unusual range of approaches and perspectives, representing divergent and even contradictory positions. This collection presents a unique profile of 20th-century moral philosophy and is itself an original contribution to ongoing debate.

A Short History of Ethics

A Short History of Ethics
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268161283

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book “thirty years on” and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality.

A Short History of Ethics

A Short History of Ethics
Author: Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1998
Genre: Ethics
ISBN: 0415173981

Widely acknowledged to be the perfect introduction to the subject, this important text presents in concise form an insightful yet exceptionally complete history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times.

The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics
Author: Daniel C. Russell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107001161

This volume addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.

A Short History of Ethics

A Short History of Ethics
Author: Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1967
Genre: Ethics
ISBN: 9780415040273

A Short History of Ethics is a history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to the present day. It enables the reader to place specific texts in moral philosophy in a historical perspective by showing the debt moral philosophers owe to their predecessors and the historical development of changes in the moral concepts.

Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
Author: J. B. Schneewind
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199563012

J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.

Humanity

Humanity
Author: Jonathan Glover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300186401

A study of history and morality in the twentieth century, this text examines the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia.