Includes bibliographical references.

Ethics and the ancient Greek philosophers. Philosophy versus moral philosophy ; The importance of ethics ; The Sophists ; The Socratic method ; Plato's Ethics ; The moral philosophy of Aristotle -- The divergent Greek schools. The philosophy of the Cynics ; The skeptics of ancient Greece ; The Epicureans ; The Stoics ; Plotinus and Neoplatonism -- Consequentialist ethics. Normative ethics and descriptive ethics ; Jeremy Bentham and measuring utility ; John Stuart Mill and utilitarianism ; Ethical altruism ; Rule consequentialism ; Act consequentialism ; Criticisms of consequentialist ethics -- Deontological ethics. Immanuel Kant and Kantianism ; Kant and the categorical imperative ; Alternate formulations of Kant's categorical imperative ; John Rawls and the ethics of egalitarianism ; Criticisms of Kantian ethics -- Virtue ethics. Virtue ethics ; Criticisms of virtue ethics ; Divine command theory ; Thomas Aquinas and natural law ethics ; Ethical relativism ; Moral realism and antirealism -- Eastern moral philosophies. Buddhist ethics ; Confucianism and ethics ; Ibn Sina's reconciliation ; Ibn Miskawayh and Al-Ghazali ; Taoist ethics -- Negative views on ethics. Niccolò Machiavelli ; Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism ; The ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche ; The philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer ; Ludwig Wittgenstein and the language of ethics -- Other moral philosphers. Peter Abelard and nominalism ; Voltaire and hedonism ; John Locke and the just government ; Lord Shaftesbury and moral sense theory ; The philosophies of Baruch Spinoza

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