A Short History of Ethics: a History of Moral Philosophy From the Homeric Age To the Twentieth Century

NOTES

[^1]: “On the Analysis of Moral Judgments,” in Philosophical Essays, pp. 245-246.

[^2]: Merit and Responsibility in Greek Ethics, pp. 32-33.

[^3]: For later discussions, see Chap. XII, pp. 157, and Chap. XVIII, pp. 249.

[^4]: Odyssey, Book XXII.

[^5]: Iliad, Book I.

[^6]: See H. Frisch, Might and Right in Antiquity.

[^7]: Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, Book V, 105.

[^8]: Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, Book III, 82.

[^9]: Introduction to Ethics by P. H. Nowell-Smith.

[^10]: Theatetus, 167c.

[^11]: Metaphysics, 1078b.

[^12]: For an alternative view, see R. Robinson, Plato’s Earlier Dialectic, pp. 15-17.

[^13]: Eudemian Ethics, 1216b.

[^14]: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Chap. VI.

[^15]: The Open Society, Vol. I, Chap. 6, p. 78.

[^16]: Republic, Book V, 475e-476a.

[^17]: Nichomachean Ethics, Book I, 1094a.

[^18]: “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish,” in Unpopular Essays.

[^19]: Nichomachean Ethics, 1130b; Politics, 1277b.

[^20]: “Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?,” in Mind (1912), reprinted in Moral Obligation.

[^21]: H. J. Kelsen, The Philosophy of Aristotle and the Hellenic-Macedonian Policy, International Journal of Ethics, XLVIII, 1.

[^22]: Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Philosophers, 7, 89.

[^23]: History, VI, 36, 2.

[^24]: Cur Deus Homo.

[^25]: The discussion of this theme by J. N. Figgis in From Gerson to Grotius is still unsurpassed.

[^26]: Lives, p. 150.

[^27]: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, ed. W. Molesworth, VII, 73.

[^28]: Ibid., IV, 53.

[^29]: Ibid., III, 130.

[^30]: Ibid., III, 154.

[^31]: Ibid., III, 158.

[^32]: Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe. p. 325. This view of Defoe I owe of course to the analysis of Professor Ian Watts in The Rise of the Novel, a book whose interest for the student of morality can scarcely be overrated.

[^33]: Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Sec. III, Part II.

[^34]: Putney Debates, in Puritanism and Liberty: Being the Army Debates (1647-8) from the Clarke Manuscripts, selected and edited by A. S. P. Woodhouse.

[^35]: An Arrow Against All Tyrants, p. 3.

[^36]: Second Treatise of Civil Government, Sec. 5.

[^37]: Ibid., Sec. 119.

[^38]: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1773 edition), II, 415.

[^39]: An Enquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, II, 3.

[^40]: Fifteen Sermons, 2, 8.

[^41]: Ibid., 2, 14.

[^42]: Treatise of Human Nature, II, 3, 3.

[^43]: Ibid., III, 1, 2.

[^44]: Ibid., III, 1, 1.

[^45]: Ibid., III, 1, 2.

[^46]: Whole Duty of Man, Sunday, XIII, Sec. 30.

[^47]: Treatise, III, 1, 1.

[^48]: Ibid., III, 2, 1.

[^49]: Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, V, 2.

[^50]: De L’Esprit des Lois, XXIV, 24.

[^51]: Du Contrat Social, II, 3.

[^52]: On the Saying: That may be all right in Theory but it is no good in Practice, in Kant, edited and translated by G. Rabel.

[^53]: Hegel: A Re-examination, p. 111.

[^54]: Discussion of Press Debates, in Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, I, 1, i.

[^55]: History of Philosophy and Religion in Germany, translated by J. Snodgrass, p. 158.

[^56]: Ibid., pp. 159-160.

[^57]: The Antichrist, 39.

[^58]: The Twilight of the Idols, 1, 2.

[^59]: “We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of natures and of ages.”-Reflections on the Revolution in France, Everyman edition, p. 84.

[^60]: Loc. cit.

[^61]: Works, ed. Bowring, II, 253.

[^62]: See the Science of Ethics.

[^63]: Ethics Since 1900, pp. 128-129.

[^64]: “Moral Arguments,” in Mind (1958).

[^65]: “Good and Evil,” in Analysis, Vol. 17.

A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century. Contributors: Alasdair MacIntyre - author. Publisher: Routledge. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1998.