Any historical overview is necessarily selective. The current article elaborates the central teachings of some of the most important ethical philosophers of the ancient, medieval and modern periods. Roughly speaking, ancient ethical thinking begins with the Greek Sophists of the fifth century B.C.E. and ends with the fall of Rome.

history of ethics, history of the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good or bad and what is morally right or wrong. The history of ethics encompasses the development of substantive ethical theories from which particular moral judgments may follow, as well as more general understandings of the nature of ethical theories and ...

2024年12月18日 · Ethics, the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. Its subject consists of fundamental issues of practical decision making, and its major concerns include the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be morally evaluated.

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns matters of value, and thus comprises the branch of philosophy called axiology.

2013年1月1日 · The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics explores the history of philosophical ethics in the western tradition from Homer until the present day, providing a broad overview of the views of many of the main thinkers, schools, and periods, and including in addition chapters on such topics as autonomy and impartiality.

The volumes in this series provide concise and representative selections of key texts from the history of philosophy. Expertly edited and introduced by established scholars, each volume represents a particular philosophical era,

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics explores the history of philosophical ethics in the western tradition from Homer until the present day. It provides a broad overview of the views of many of the main thinkers, schools, and periods, and includes in addition essays on topics such as autonomy and impartiality.

ETHICS, HISTORY OF. The term ethics is used in three different but related ways, signifying (1) a general pattern or "way of life," (2) a set of rules of conduct or "moral code," and (3) inquiry about ways of life and rules of conduct. In the first sense we speak of Buddhist or Christian ethics; in the second, we speak of professional ethics ...

2020年3月18日 · The main themes: (1) Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Stoics take different positions in debates the relation between morality (including right action and the character of virtuous agents) and the human good. Aquinas’ version of an Aristotelian view identifies the human good with the fulfilment of human nature and capacities in a just society.

from the Antiquity to the late nineteenth century, ethics (or moral phi- losophy) was almost exclusively a normative science: put simply, it is not that much interested in what people do (and why), but with what