Ethics Through History
ISBN: 9780199603701
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Philosophy Moral Philosophy;

Terence Irwin presents an extended historical and philosophical discussion of the major questions and key philosophers in the history of ethics, from Socrates onwards, in Ethics Through History. He covers notable ancient, medieval, and modern moral philosophers whose engaging arguments have formed the agenda for contemporary ethical theory. What is the human good? What are the primary virtues that make a good person? What makes an action right? Must wetry to maximize good consequences? How can we know what is right and good? Can morality be rationally justified? Irwin makes the debates surrounding such fundamental questions intelligible, examining thephilosophies of key moral thinkers in sufficient detail to convey the strengths and weaknesses of their individual positions.

Terence Irwin is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He obtained his MA from Oxford and his PhD from Princeton University. He has taught at Harvard and Cornell. He is the author of The Development of Ethics (Oxford 2007-9), among numerous other publications.

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