The Story of Ethics: Fulfilling Our Human Nature

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This book provides readers with an excellent introduction to the history of ethics. The authors examine the ethical philosophies of prominent Western thinkersfrom the ancients through the twentieth centurywithin the context of their views of human nature and human fulfillment. They do so in a way that is both accessible and engaging without sacrificing the profundity of the issues raised. A five-part organization covers the Homeric tradition the Sophists Plato Aristotle Christianity Neoplatonism Augustine the Euthyphro problem revolutions and reformations Thomas Hobbes David Hume Immanuel Kant Mary Wollstonecraft Hegelianism and Materialism Karl Marx John Stuart Mill Soren Kierkegaard Darwinism Friedrich Nietzsche G. E. Moore A.J. Ayer Jean-Paul Sartre Elizabeth Anscombe John Rawls Alasdair MacIntyre Carol Gilligan Richard Rorty and a conclusion about human nature morality & fulfillment. For individuals who want to better formulate their own answers and frame their own decisions both large and small within the all important context of what it means to flourish as a human being.