The Development of Ethics

Volume 1 – From Socrates to the Reformation

Terrence Irwin, Oxford 2007 (812 pages)

From the back cover:

“The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defense. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This volume [the first of three] examines ancient and medieval philosophy up to the sixteenth century.”