Philosophical ethics consists in the human endeavour to answer rationally the fundamental question of how we should live. The Oxford Handbook of the History of

The Handbook is a comprehensive reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned articles by leading scholars. The first part treats meta-ethics and

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Fifty distinguished contributors survey the entire history of political philosophy. They consider questions about how the subject should best be studied; they e

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