A Comprehensive History of Western Ethics:
 What Do We Believe?

by Warren Ashby
edited with a Foreword by W. Allen Ashby
Published by Prometheus Books
1997, Hardback, 570 pages
January, 2005, Paperback with new Foreword
by Benjamin Ladner, former President, American University


Warren Ashby’s A Comprehensive History of Western Ethics:  What Do We Believe?, first published in 1997, has been reissued by Prometheus Books in a new paperback edition, January, 2005. 

The paperback includes a new Foreword by Benjamin Ladner, President, American University in Washington, D.C.  Benjamin Ladner formerly taught in the Philosophy Department and was Head of the Religious Studies Department at UNC-G.

The paperback also has a new front cover with detail from The Day The Sun Came Out, a weaving by Helen Bewley Ashby.

The book lists at $24, but can now be purchased from Amazon.com for $16.32.  Visit http://www.amazon.com;

An excellent review of the book by Dr. Richard Whitlock is in the January, 1998 newsletter of the Residential College.  This can be viewed online at http://www.ashbydialogues.org/RC/Following/1998Jan.pdf.

Warren Ashby, founding Director of Residential College and first head of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, died in 1985, leaving behind a finished but unedited manuscript for a book on the history of western ethics.  Ashby’s son, W. Allen Ashby, finished the work.

Book Sample
Table of Contents
Chapter Two: The Biblical Ethic
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Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect: A Personal View