| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 265 pages). |
| Series |
Key thinkers |
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Continuum key thinkers.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Plato / Tom Angier -- Aristotle / Timothy Chappell -- Stoics / Jacob Klein -- Aquinas / Vivian Boland O.P -- Hume / Peter Millican -- Kant / Ralph Walker -- Hegel / Kenneth Westphal -- Marx / Sean Sayers -- Mill / Krister Bykvist -- Nietzsche / Ken Gemes and Christoph Schuringa -- Macintyre / David Solomon. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Ethicists.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Ethicists. (OCoLC)fst00915831
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Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
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| Added Author |
Angier, Tom P. S.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ethics. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012 (DLC) 2012006889 |
| ISBN |
9781441113825 (electronic bk.) |
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1441113827 (electronic bk.) |
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