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	Ethics: The Key Thinkers

Tom Angier
A&C Black, Sep 27, 2012 - Philosophy - 288 pages
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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:

PlatoAristotleThe StoicsThomas AquinasDavid HumeImmanuel KantG.W.F. HegelKarl MarxJ.S. Mill Friedrich NietzscheAlasdair MacIntyre 

The book explores the contribution of each thinker in turn, narrating how they have changed the shape of ethical theory as a whole. The book also includes guides to the latest reading on each thinker.


 		 
	


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Table of Contents

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Contents
	Introduction
	1
	  	
	Chapter 1 Plato
	11
	  	
	Chapter 2 Aristotle
	33
	  	
	Chapter 3 The Stoics
	57
	  	
	Chapter 4 Aquinas
	83
	  	
	Chapter 5 Hume
	105
	  	
	Chapter 6 Kant
	133
	  	



	Chapter 7 Hegel
	153
	  	
	Chapter 8 Marx
	175
	  	
	Chapter 9 Mill
	197
	  	
	Chapter 10 Nietzsche
	217
	  	
	Chapter 11 MacIntyre
	239
	  	
	Index
	263
	  	
	Copyright
	
	  	








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About the author (2012)
Tom Angier is Lecturer in Philosophy at St Andrews University, UK.



Bibliographic information

	Title	Ethics: The Key Thinkers
Continuum key thinkers
Volume 12 of Key Thinkers
	Editor	Tom Angier
	Publisher	A&C Black, 2012
	ISBN	1441149392, 9781441149398
	Length	288 pages
	Subjects	Philosophy
 › History & Surveys
 › General


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