A short history of ethics : a history of moral philosophy from the homeric age to the twentieth century / Alasdair Maclntyre

incl. index.

Preface -- Preface to the first edition -- The philosophical point of the history of ethics -- The prephilosophical history of "good" and the transition to philosophy -- The sophists and Socrates -- Plato: The gorgias -- Plato: The republic -- Postscript to Plato -- Aristotle's ethics -- Postacript to Greek ethics -- Christianity -- Luther Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Spinoza -- New values -- The British eighteenth-century argument -- The French eighteenth-century argument -- Kant -- Hegel and Marx -- Kierkegaard to Nietzsche --

An introduction to ethics, presenting in concise form an insightful history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times. In clear and readable prose, Alasdair MacIntyre leads the reader towards a greater understanding of what lies behind our ethical decisions