Bibliography: p. 353-417.

Early Greek Eudaimonism -- Teleogical Eudaimonism : Aristotle -- Hellenistic Ethics: Stoic, Epicurean, and Neoplatonic -- Patristic and Early Medieval Ethics -- Medieval Jewish and Moslem Ethics -- Right Reason Theories -- Humanist Ethics in the Renaissance -- British Egoism and Its Reactions -- Rationalistic Ethics on the Continent -- Utilitarian and Subjectivist Ethics i Britain -- German Idealistic Ethics -- Franco-Latin Spiritistic Ethics --Societal Ethics in Europe -- Axiological Ethics -- Self-Realization and Utilitarian Ethics -- Naturalistic Ethics -- Analytic Ethics -- Existential and Phenomelogical Ethics

Utilitarian movement of Hume, outlines German and French theories, and concludes with ethical theories from Marx to Rosenberg. The fifth and final part of history is a dicerning treament of key contemporary theories including the ethical thoughts of Dewey, Huxley, Tillich and Sartre, to name few. The section concludes with a chapter on existential and phenomenological ethics. Comprehensive notes and invaluable bibliography, aranged by period, follow this final section. History of Ethics is the answer to an often-voiced plea for a one-volume suvey that would cover every significant ethical theory, every school, and every ethician of any importance from the beginning of ethical history to the present. It is a lucid, interesting book whose purpose is probably best summed up in Professor Bourke's own words from the introduction: "Most theories presented in this history have some direct relation to, or impact on, the cultural development of Western man. Perhaps they will not tell us clearly what is an unassailable ground for moral judgment, but they do provide a wide variety of important sugestions as to how we might think on these human problems".