Introduction to Moral Reasoning

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Part I - Premises

1. What is Moral Reasoning?
2. Why Study Moral Reasoning?
3. How to Study
4. Traditions in Philosophy

Part II - Early Moral Theory

1. Socrates and Plato
2. Epicurus and Lucretius

Part III - Judeo-Christian Moral Theory

1. Biblical Precedents
2. Maimonides
3. St. Augustine
4. Thomas Aquinas
5. C.S. Lewis

Part IV - Secular Moral Theory

1. Plato

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

1. Aristotle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics

1. David Hume
2. Immanuel Kant
3. Ludwig Feuerbach
4. Friedrich Nietzsche

Part V - Responses to Secularism

1. Soren Kierkegaard
2. Martin Buber

Authors

See also Thinking And Moral Problems