BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE NATURE AND ORIGINS OF ETHICS -- THE INTRODUCTION OF MORAL CODES -- MYTHICAL ACCOUNTS -- PROBLEMS OF DIVINE ORIGIN -- PREHUMAN ETHICS -- NONHUMAN BEHAVIOUR -- KINSHIP AND RECIPROCITY -- ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHICS -- CHAPTER 2 ETHICS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- THE MIDDLE EAST -- INDIA -- CHINA -- ANCIENT GREECE -- SOCRATES -- PLATO -- ARISTOTLE -- LATER GREEK AND ROMAN ETHICS -- THE STOICS -- THE EPICUREANS -- ETHICS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT -- SAINT AUGUSTINE -- CHAPTER 3 THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION -- SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS AND THE SCHOLASTICS -- THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION -- NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI -- THE FIRST PROTESTANTS -- CHAPTER 4 THE 17TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY: BRITAIN -- THOMAS HOBBES -- THE EARLY INTUITIONISTS -- THE MORAL SENSE SCHOOL -- JOSEPH BUTLER -- FRANCIS HUTCHESON AND DAVID HUME -- RICHARD PRICE AND THOMAS REID -- UTILITARIANISM -- WILLIAM PALEY -- JEREMY BENTHAM -- JOHN STUART MILL -- HENRY SIDGWICK -- CHAPTER 5 THE 17TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY: THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT -- BENEDICT DE SPINOZA -- GOTT FRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -- JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -- IMMANUEL KANT -- GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -- KARL MARX -- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE -- CHAPTER 6 CONTEMPORARY ETHICS -- METAETHICS -- G.E. MOORE AND THE NATURALISTIC FALLACY -- CONTEMPORARY INTUITIONISM -- EMOTIVISM -- EXISTENTIALISM -- UNIVERSAL PRESCRIPTIVISM -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN METAETHICS -- NORMATIVE ETHICS -- VARIETIES OF CONSEQUENTIALISM -- OBJECTIONS TO CONSEQUENTIALISM -- PRIMA FACIE DUTIES -- JOHN RAWLS'S THEORY OF JUSTICE -- RIGHTS THEORIES -- NATURAL LAW ETHICS -- VIRTUE ETHICS -- FEMINIST ETHICS -- ETHICAL EGOISM -- APLIED ETHICS -- EQUALITY -- ANIMALS -- THE ENVIRONMENT -- WAR AND PEACE -- ABORTION, EUTHANASIA, AND THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE -- BIOETHICS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION.

GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL HISTORIES OF WESTERN ETHICS -- ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN ETHICS -- EARLY AND MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN ETHICS -- THE 17TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY: BRITAIN -- THE 17TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY: THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT -- METAETHICS -- NORMATIVE ETHICS -- APPLIED ETHICS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.