Item #115189 The Development of Ethics. A Historical and Critical Study. Volume I: From Socrates to the Reformation. Volume II: From Suarez to Rousseau. Volume III: From Kant to Rawls. Terence IRWIN.

IRWIN, Terence

The Development of Ethics. A Historical and Critical Study. Volume I: From Socrates to the Reformation. Volume II: From Suarez to Rousseau. Volume III: From Kant to Rawls

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (all first editions).

Quarto, three volumes, xxviii (last blank), 812; xxiiv (last blank), 911; and xxviii, 1020 pages.

Cloth occasionally slightly bumped at the extremities; one rear cover slightly indented and marked; an excellent set with the excellent dustwrappers (one is lightly creased with a few tiny edge tears).

A 'selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence'. Terence Irwin was Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Oxford from 2007 to 2017. [3 items].