Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: A Short History of Western Ethics
1. Christian, Biblical Ethics
2. Ancient Ethics: Plato and Aristotle on Moral Knowledge
3. Moral Knowledge from Augustine through Aquinas
4. Moral Knowledge in the Reformation and the Enlightenment Shift
Part Two: Naturalism, Relativism and Postmodernism: Understanding and Assessing Today?s Dominant Moral Paradigms
5. Options for Naturalistic Ethics
6. Naturalism, Knowledge and the Fact-Value Split
7. More Modern Options: Ethical Relativism, Rawls?s Political Liberalism and Korsgaard?s Constructivism
8. Introduction to the Postmodern Period: A Plurality of Different Voices
9. MacIntyre?s Recovered Thomistic Ethics
10. Hauerwas?s Narrative Christian Ethics
11. Assessing MacIntyre?s and Hauerwas?s Projects
Part Three: Toward a Theory of Moral Knowledge
12. Moral Realism and Addressing the Crisis of (Moral) Knowledge
13. Religiously Based Moral Knowledge?and Final Issues
Index