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Author:   Peter Kreeft
Publisher:   St Augustine's Press
Imprint:   St Augustine's Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781587312335

ISBN 10:   1587312336
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   17 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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32 ETHICAL GURUS 1. One anonymous sage: the Rta/Tao/Logos, Four Sages from the East 2. The Hindu Tradition: The Four Wants of Man 3. Buddha: Nirvana 4. Lao Tzu: Nature's Way 5. Confucius: Social Harmony Three Sages from the West 6. Moses: Divine Law 7. Jesus: Agape Love 8. Muhammad: Islam Three Classic Greek Founders of Philosophy 9. Socrates: the Primacy of Wisdom ( Virtue is Knowledge ) 10. Plato: a, No double standard: ethics and politics; b. Platonic ideas: the objective reality of goodness; c. Justice as health of soul and therefore always profitable 11. Aristotle: a.Happiness as the end, the greatest good; b. Virtue as the road to happiness; c. The good as teleological; d. The golden mean as the key to virtue; e. Ethics as dependent on metaphysics; f. The (later) idea of natural law Three Lesser but More Popular Ancient Philosophers 12. Protagoras 13. Epicurus: Hedonism 14. Epicurus: Stoicism Three Medieval Christian Saints 15. St. Augustine: a. Love as gravity; b. Only two kinds of people; c. The restless heart 16. St. Anselm: The Good greater than which nothing can be thought 17. Thomas Aquinas: a. The role of faith and reason; b. Four kinds of law; c. The four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues; d. Eight candidates for happiness Three Modern Political Philosophers 18. Machiavelli: the good as the practical 19. Hobbes: the good as power 20. Rousseau: the good as feeling Three Classic Modern Ethical Alternatives 21. Hume: the good as subjective 22. Kant: a. The good as goodwill; b. Goodwill as duty; c. Duty as the categorical imperative 23. Mill: Utilitarianism: the good as maximally happy consequences Three Existentialists 24. Kierkegaard: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Religion 25. Nietzsche: a. The genealogy of morals as resentment; b. The Superman: beyond good and evil , c. The will to power 26. Sartre: a. God vs. freedom; b. Love vs freedom Two Personalists 27. Marcel: a. Being as value; b. Mysteries vs. problems; c. Creative fidelity 28. Von Hildebrand: a. Three kinds of value; b. The ethics of the heart Three Analytic Philosophers 29. Ayer: the good as meaningless 30. Moore: the good as indefinable 31. Wittgenstein: the good as mystical 32. Is ethics dead? MacIntyre After Virtue vs. Aquinas Conclusions Appendix I: Suggestions for questions for original essays or debates Appendix II: Ten methods from the philosophers for writing original essays

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