Titlebook: Ethics in the History of Western Philosophy; Robert J. Cavalier (Coordinator),James Gouinlock ( Book 1989 Palgrave Macmillan, a division o

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Moore to Stevenson,No philosopher had greater impact on Anglo-American moral philosophy in the first half of the 20th century than G. E. Moore. Almost singlehandedly Moore changed even the dominant conception of the subject. What began the century as a synthetic and systematic discipline became, under his influence, a profoundly analytical one.

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Aristotle, today in Greek villages that when family and friends perceive exceptional talent in a young member of the community considerable effort is invested in providing him with the best education available. In Aristotle’s case, his guardian, a certain Proxenos, made provisions to send him to Athens where

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St Augustine,itizen was born in Tagaste, Africa, today’s Souk Ahras in Algeria near the Tunisian border, in 354 AD.. His was to be a life enmeshed in love, unconscious—in one sense at least and by his own admission.—and conscious, illicit and licit, and ultimately all-consuming. In stages he went from grammar sc

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Aquinas,ourse.. He had taken a degree in liberal arts, with philosophy as core subject, at the state university in Naples and then studied theology at Paris and Cologne under Albert the Great as key teacher. In Cologne Albert’s lectures on the . of Aristotle (as transcribed by Aquinas) opened the door to th

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Hobbes,e one hand, and the turn towards a prudence-based understanding of right and justice epitomised by Machiavelli on the other hand. In the 13th century, Ockham combined a theory of divine omnipotence with a nominalist metaphysics. The result was an ethical theory which was strongly voluntarist in the

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Hume,belief that there must be causes, that there are independent and abiding objects, and even that we each constitute, or are constituted by, an abiding and independent self. His writings on morals—the balance of the ., the ., and numerous shorter pieces—reveal an analogous concern to account for our s

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Nietzsche,ly calls ‘morality’. Yet he was preoccupied with moral matters throughout the whole of his philosophical life. One of his primary concerns was to effect a radical transformation in our entire approach to and assessment of morality, preparing the way for a new understanding of its place in human life