A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book "thirty years on" and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality. "The second edition of this classic...(展开全部)

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. "A Short History of Ethics" is an introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times. I...(展开全部)

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. "A Short History of Ethics" is an introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times. I...(展开全部)

How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary wor...(展开全部)

作者弗农•布尔克（Vernon J. Bourke，1907-1998），圣路易斯大学教授、作家、托马斯主义哲学家。主要研究领域为伦理学，尤其是奥古斯丁和托马斯•阿奎那的道德哲学。 布尔克出生于加拿大安大略省北湾市。1948年曾担任美国天主教哲学联盟主席。他是圣奥古斯丁会(Order of St. Augustine)的荣誉会员，圣母大学(University of Notre Dame)自然法则委员会成员，也是美国斐陶斐荣誉社(Phi Beta Kappa Society，美国优等大学生荣誉会)的成员。 译者黄慰愿，1982年毕业于浙江农业大学蚕桑系，1987年获华南农业大学农业史专业硕士学位，1992年获南京农业大学农业经济学博士学位。1987—1989年任浙江农业大学农业经济系教师，1992—1994年任杭州大学经济系教师。1995年移居加拿大...(展开全部)

作者弗农•布尔克（Vernon J. Bourke，1907-1998），圣路易斯大学教授、作家、托马斯主义哲学家。主要研究领域为伦理学，尤其是奥古斯丁和托马斯•阿奎那的道德哲学。 布尔克出生于加拿大安大略省北湾市。1948年曾担任美国天主教哲学联盟主席。他是圣奥古斯丁会(Order of St. Augustine)的荣誉会员，圣母大学(University of Notre Dame)自然法则委员会成员，也是美国斐陶斐荣誉社(Phi Beta Kappa Society，美国优等大学生荣誉会)的成员。 译者黄慰愿，1982年毕业于浙江农业大学蚕桑系，1987年获华南农业大学农业史专业硕士学位，1992年获南京农业大学农业经济学博士学位。1987—1989年任浙江农业大学农业经济系教师，1992—1994年任杭州大学经济系教师。1995年移居加拿大...(展开全部)

The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century through the early 1980s. Much work of importance, both theoretical and historiographic, has appeared in subsequent years, and the present edition tries to bring the story up to the end of the 20th century, as the title promised. This ...(展开全部)

The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century through the early 1980s. Much work of importance, both theoretical and historiographic, has appeared in subsequent years, and the present edition tries to bring the story up to the end of the 20th century, as the title promised. This ...(展开全部)

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared s...(展开全部)