Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 Plato -- Notes -- References -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 2 Aristotle -- Notes -- References -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 3 The Stoics -- Introduction -- Foundations and influences -- Nature -- Ethical progress -- Virtue and indifferents -- The legacy of Stoic ethics -- Notes -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 4 Aquinas -- Eudaimonia - beatitudo -- The human act -- Principles of human action -- Passion -- Disposition - virtue -- Law -- Grace -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Hume -- Hume's utilitarian virtue ethics -- The language of morals -- The corruptions of religion -- A naturalistic account of morality -- The genealogy of morals -- Reason, passion and systematization -- Notes -- References -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 6 Kant -- Notes -- References -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 7 Hegel -- Notes -- References -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 8 Marx -- The historical approach -- The concept of progress -- Happiness and the human good -- Human nature as historical -- Justice and right -- Marx on justice -- Equality -- Problems of relativism -- The right and the good -- Notes -- References -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 9 Mill -- First stop: Statement of the utilitarian principle -- Second stop: the distinction between higher and lower pleasures -- Third stop: the 'proof' of utilitarianism -- Fourth stop: the utilitarian duty -- Fifth stop: Utilitarianism, justice and liberty -- Conclusion -- References -- Recommended reading -- Chapter 10 Nietzsche -- Introduction -- Immoralism and the scope problem -- The Christian morality system -- The first revaluation: the slave revolt -- Genealogy and critique -- The second revaluation: The philosophy of the future -- Notes -- References.

Recommended reading -- Chapter 11 MacIntyre -- Notes -- References -- Recommended reading -- Index.