“A Short History of Ethics” is a history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to the present day. It enables the reader to place specific texts in moral philosophy in an historical perspective by showing the debt moral philosophers owe to their predecessors and the historical development of changes in the moral concepts which are the object of their inquiry. The book shows the influence of philosophical analysis upon these moral concepts, and is concerned with purely philosophical inquiry as well as with an historical account of ethics.

Published 1984.

Binding of the book is intact. Moderate shelfwear, foxing and some creasing on covers of book. Some tanning and foxing on edges of book. Some foxing on insides of covers. Annotations in pencil and slight foxing on certain pages.