A Short History of Ethics: Greek and Modern

Absolute abstract law activity agent altruism apprehended arise Aristotle asserts attainable Butler Categorical Imperative conception Conscience consciousness consists criticism Cudworth Cynics Cyrenaics desire determined distinction doctrine duty effects emotions Epicurean Epicurus essential Ethical Egoism Ethics evil evolution Exclusive Egoism existence express external feeling follows freedom Greek happiness harmony Hedonism hedonistic Hegel highest Hobbes human nature Hume Hutcheson idea identified individual interests intuitional Intuitionism J. S. Mill judgment Justice Kant knowledge Laws of Nature means mental merely Mind moral obligation moral sense moral virtues motive naturalists object pain particular partly passions perfect persons philosophy physical Plato Political Absolutism possess practical principles Protagoras psychological Psychological Hedonism Rational Idealism realised Reason recognised regarded right action satisfaction seek Self-love Shaftesbury Sidgwick social society Socrates soul Spencer Spinoza Stoicism Stoics sympathy Temperance theoria theory things tion true truth ultimate unity universal Utilitarianism Well-being whole worth