Introduction
Knowledge and virtue / Plato
Moral character / Aristotle
The pleasant life / Epicurus
Self-discipline / Epictetus
The love of God / Saint Augustine
Morality and natural law / Saint Thomas Aquinas
Social contract ethics / Thomas Hobbes
Conscience in morality / Joseph Butler
Morality and sentiment / David Hume
Duty and reason / Immanuel Kant
The greatest happiness principle / John Stuart Mill
The leap of faith / Soren Kierkegaard
Morality as ideology / Karl Marx
The transvaluation of values / Friedrich Nietzsche
Scientific method in ethics / John Dewey
The indefinability of good / G.E. Moore
Prima facie duty / W.D. Ross
Ethics as emotive expression / A.J. Ayer and C.L. Stevenson
Radical freedom / Jean-Paul Sartre
Good reasons in ethics / Kurt Baier
Ethics and social justice / John Rawls
Moral virtue and human interest / Philippa Foot
Ethics as trusting in trust / Annette Baier.