A History of Western Ethics

by Lawrence C. Becker

This newly revised and updated edition of A History of Western Ethics is a coherent and accessible overview of the most important figures and influential ideas of the history of ethics in the Western philosophical tradition.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Mel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read it for an Ethics Class. It is primarily a history book that begins with Aristotle and drones on until reaching the Twentieth Century. Every other sentence is a reference of some sort clogging the page with way too many author's name and years that loosing track of what you're reading is far too easy. The book is really very informative, but you need to ignore the constant references in order to see this, otherwise is cumbersome. If it hadn't been because is was the class' textbook I wouldn't have finished it.

[Hagar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Since each chapter is written by a different author, the book was not uniformly well-written. On the not so well-written chapters, the authors injected too much information in too little space. However, overall I found the book extremely helpful in providing me with a general ( and sometimes somewhat specific) idea of the history of western ethics. A lot of work must have been put into this.