Includes bibliographical references and index.

Homeric ethics / Roger Crisp -- Plato's ethics / Nicholas White -- Aristotle's ethics / Paula Gottlieb -- Epicurus : freedom, death, and hedonism / Phillip Mitsis -- Cynicism and stoicism / Christopher Gill -- Ancient scepticism / Richard Bett -- Platonic ethics in later antiquity / Lloyd P. Gerson -- Thomism / Colleen McCluskey -- The Franciscans / Thomas Williams -- Later Christian ethics / T.H. Irwin -- Nature, law, and natural law / T.H. Irwin -- Seventeenth-century moral philosophy : self-help, self-knowledge, and the Devil's Mountain / Aaron Garrett -- Rousseau and ethics / Christopher Bertram -- Utilitarianism : Bentham and Rashdall / Robert Shaver -- Rationalism / Maria Rosa Antognazza -- Rational intuitionism / Philip Stratton-Lake -- Moral sense and sentimentalism / Julia Driver -- Butler's ethics / David McNaughton -- Hume's place in the history of ethics / Annette Baier -- Adam Smith / James Otteson -- Kant's moral philosophy / Andrews Reath -- Kantian ethics / Otfried Höffe -- Post-Kantianism / Raymond Geuss -- Hegel and Marx / Terry Pinkard -- J.S. Mill / Henry R. West -- Sidgwick / Bart Schultz -- British idealist ethics / W.J. Mander -- Ethics in the analytic tradition / John Deigh -- Free will / Derk Pereboom -- Emotion and the emotions / Susan Sauvé Meyer and Adrienne M. Martin -- Happiness, suffering, and death / Richard Kraut -- Autonomy / John Christman -- Egoism, partiality, and impartiality / Brad Hooker -- Conscience, guilt, and shame / John Cottingham -- Moral psychology and virtue / Nancy Sherman -- Justice, equality, and rights / John Tasioulas -- Styles of moral relativism : a critical family tree / Miranda Fricker -- Moral metaphysics / Daniel Star -- Constructing practical ethics / Dale Jamieson.