{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-ethics-a-history-of-moral-philosophy-from-the-homeric-age-to-the-twentieth-century-second-edition-paperback","title":"A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Second Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlasdair MacIntyre\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Short History of Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book \"thirty years on\" and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author writes...'This history of moral philosophy which runs from the Greeks to contemporary Anglo-Saxon discussion is necessarily compressed and selective, but is intended to enable the general reader and the student to place particular texts in moral philosophy in an historical perspective. The function of this perspective is to clarify three kinds of historical and philosophical connection whose importance is often underrated. The first is a matter of the debts which moral philosophers owe to their predecessors; the second concerns the question of the nature of the moral concepts which furnish any moral philosopher with the objects of his enquiry upon moral concepts themselves and the extent to which the philosophical analysis of a concept may play a part in transforming or even discrediting it. A consequence of these preoccupations is that the book contains a higher proportion of purely philosophical enquiry than might be expected in an historical work.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlasdair MacIntyre is research professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eAfter Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, Third Edition (Notre Dame Press, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eThree Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (Notre Dame Press, 1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.14 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52611052044595,"sku":"9780268017590","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bnVZelhRcy9UWWw3bmF5OXgyRmxMQT09.webp?v=1761832403","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-short-history-of-ethics-a-history-of-moral-philosophy-from-the-homeric-age-to-the-twentieth-century-second-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}