Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: Greek Ethics

• The Social Sources of the Ethic
• The Presuppositions of Greek Ethics
  • The Sophists
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristole
• The Unique Contribution of the Greek Moral Philosophers
  

Chapter 2: The Biblical Ethic

• Social Life of the Eighth Century B.C.E.
• The Presuppositions of Prophetic Ethics
  • Amos
  • Hosea
  • Isaiah
  • Jeremiah
  • "Second Isaiah"
• Is There a Prophetic Ethic?
• Social Sources of the Ethics of Jesus and Paul
• Ethical Presuppositions
  • The Experience of Jesus
  • Paul's Interpretation of Human Life
  • The Ethic of Jesus and Paul
• The Unique Contribution of the Hebrew Prophets, Jesus and Paul
• Summary: The Greek Philosophers and the Hebrew Prophets
  

Chapter 3: The Ethics of Roman Stoicism

• The Ethic of Marcus Aurelius
  • "To Himself" : The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
  • The Ethic
  • The Moral Relations of Life
• The Unique Contribution of Roman Stoicism
  

Chapter 4: The Ethics of St. Augustine

• Eternal Rome: The Failure of the Classical Ideal
• Augustine: Life and Point of View
  • The Ethical Life of The Confessions
  • Augustine's Religious and Philosophical Ethic
• The Unique Contribution of St. Augustine
  

Chapter 5: The Ethics of Medieval Christendom

• Social Context of the Ethic
• Presuppositions of the Medieval Ethic
  • Abelard and Heloise
  • Francis of Assisi
  • Thomas Aquinas
• The Unique Contribution of Medieval Ethics
  

Chapter 6: The Ethics of The Renaissance and Reformation

• Societal Influences upon the Ethic
• Presuppositions of the Renaissance and Reformation Ethic
• The Ethic of the Renaissance
  • Pico della Mirandola
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Ethic of the Reformation
  • Martin Luther
  • John Calvin
• The Unique Contribution of the Renaissance and Reformation
  

Chapter 7: The Ethics of the Religious and Scientific Revolutions

• The Seventeenth Century
• The Social Background of the Puritan Revolution
• The Presuppositions of the Puritans
  • John Lilburne
  • John Bunyan
• The Puritan Ethic of the Seventeenth Century
• The Ethic of the Scientific Revolution
• The Presuppositions of the Ethics of the Scientific Revolution
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Benedict Spinoza
• Scientific Ethics of the Seventeenth Century
• The Unique Contribution of the Seventeenth Century
  

Chapter 8: The Ethics of the Enlightenment

• What was the Enlightenment?
• Presuppositions of Eighteenth Century Ethics
  • John Locke and Great Britain in the Eighteenth Century
  • Adam Smith and The Economic Revolution
  • Thomas Jefferson and The Political Revolution
  • Immanuel Kant and The Philosophical Revolution
• The Unique Contribution of the Enlightenment
  

Chapter 9: The Ethics of Romanticism

• Presuppositions of the Ethics
• Social Sources of the Ethics
• TheLyrical Ballads
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Wordsworth's Discovery and Shaping of the Self
• The Unique Contribution of the Romantics

Chapter 10: The Last Western Century

• Social Sources of the Ethics
• Presuppositions of the Ethics
  • Charles Darwin
• Presuppositions in the Ethics of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud Karl Marx
  • Karl Marx
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sigmund Freud
• The Unique Contribution of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud
  

Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect: A Personal View

Bibliography

Index