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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Tom Angier (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 1. Plato, Tom Angier (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 2. Aristotle, Timothy Chappell (The Open University, UK) 3. The Stoics, Jacob Klein (Colgate University, USA) 4. Aquinas, Vivian Boland O.P. (University of Oxford, UK) 5. Hume, Peter Millican (University of Oxford, UK) 6. Kant, Ralph Walker (University of Oxford, UK) 7. Hegel, Kenneth Westphal (Bogazici University, Turkey) 8. Marx, Sean Sayers (University of Kent, UK) 9. Mill, Krister Bykvist (Stockholm University, Sweden) 10. Nietzsche, Ken Gemes (Birkbeck College and New College of the Humanities, UK) and Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities, UK) 11. MacIntyre, David Solomon (University of Notre Dame, USA) 12. Chinese Ethics, Alba Cercas Curry (University of California at Riverside, USA) 13. Indian Ethics, Christopher Bartley (University of Liverpool, UK) 14. African Ethics, Thaddeus Metz (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Index

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An introduction to what the great philosophers have written and argued about ethics across the history of Western, Chinese, Indian and African traditions.

About the Author

Tom Angier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Reviews

It is good to have a new edition of this very useful and informative work. The essays offer clear and sympathetic treatments of a range of key ethical thinkers, including now chapters on Chinese, Indian and African ethics. It is highly recommended to anyone looking to explore this fascinating field, and learn more about the ethical insights to be learned from its history.
*Robert Stern, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK*

Ethics: The Key Thinkers is an uncommonly successful integration of explanation and critical discussion. The treatment of thinkers is historically informed and negotiates the conceptual terrain—now global in scope—with admirable clarity. The chapters are philosophically rich but also accessible, making the volume a valuable resource at many levels.
*Jonathan Jacobs, Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College and Doctoral Faculty of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY, USA*