Synopses & Reviews
Intended for the Introduction to Ethics course taught at all four-year and most two-year schools, as well as the Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Historical Survey of Moral Philosophy, and History of Theoretical Ethics courses.
This is one of the finest collections of primary source material available to beginning ethics students. The chronologically sequenced chapter units give an overall historical perspective while informative chapter introductions include biographical, historical, and other information designed to prepare readers for the primary selections that follow. Brief comments by the editors are inserted into the edited primary material to assist student understanding.