Table of contents : Cover Half-title page Title page Copyright page Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Ethics before Socrates 2 Socrates and Sophists 3 Plato 4 Aristotle 5 Epicureanism and Hedonism 6 Stoicism 7 Ancient Skepticism 8 Neo-Platonism 9 Early Christian Ethics 10 Boethius, Abelard and Anselm 11 Medieval Jewish Ethics 12 Moral Philosophy in the Medieval Islamicate World 13 “Christian Aristotelianism”? Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas 14 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham 15 Humanism 16 The Protestant Reformation 17 Descartes’s Provisional Morality 18 Hobbes 19 The Cambridge Platonists 20 Bayle 21 Leibniz 22 Spinoza 23 Pascal 24 Locke and Butler 25 Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and the Moral Sense 26 Hume 27 Smith and Bentham 28 Rousseau 29 Rationalism and Perfectionism 30 Kant 31 Fichte 32 Hegel 33 Mill 34 Schopenhauer 35 Kierkegaard 36 American Transcendentalism 37 Nietzsche 38 Marxism 39 Sidgwick 40 Pragmatism 41 British Idealism 42 Ethical Intuitionism 43 Husserl and Phenomenological Ethics 44 Ethics in Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis 45 Noncognitivism: From the Vienna Circle to the Present Day 46 The Frankfurt School 47 Heidegger 48 Sartre 49 French Ethical Philosophy since the 1960s 50 Wittgenstein’s Ethics and Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy 51 Anti-Theory: Anscombe, Foot and Williams 52 Discourse Ethics 53 Decision Theory 54 Rawls Index