BIBLIOGRAPHY
References to individual moral philosophers through the
nineteenth century and their works may be found in Henry
Sidgwick, Outlines of the History of Ethics, 5th ed. (London,
1902), or in a comprehensive general history of philosophy,
such as A History of Philosophy, 3rd ed., by B. A. G. Fuller,
revised by Sterling M. McMurrin (New York, 1955). See also
Alasdair MacIntyre,
A Short History of Ethics (London, 1967).
Twentieth-century conceptions of the right and the good
are found in the various schools or movements. For a study
of general value theory that looks back historically, see John
Laird, The Idea of Value (Cambridge, 1929). For phenom-
enological approaches to value: Nicolai Hartmann, Ethics,
trans. Stanton Coit (London, 1932), and Wolfgang Köhler,
The Place of Value in a World of Facts (New York, 1938).
For naturalistic value theory: Ralph Barton Perry, General
Theory of Value (New York, 1926) and Realms of Value
(Cambridge, Mass., 1958); Stephen C. Pepper, The Sources
of Value (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1958). For analytic
formulations in the first part of the century: G. E. Moore,
Principia Ethica (Cambridge, 1903); H. A. Prichard, Moral
Obligation (Oxford, 1949); W. D. Ross, The Right and The
Good (Oxford, 1930). For emotive theory: Charles L.
Stevenson, Ethics and Language (New Haven, 1944). For
ordinary language analysis: P. H. Nowell-Smith, Ethics
(London, 1954). For formal approaches in deontic and
axiological systems: G. H. von Wright, Norm and Action
(London, 1963) and The Logic of Preference (London, 1963);
see also his general analytic study, The Varieties of Goodness
(London, 1963). For pragmatic approaches: C. I. Lewis, An
Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (LaSalle, Ill., 1946),
Part III, and The Ground and Nature of the Right (New
York, 1955); John Dewey and James H. Tufts, Ethics, rev.
ed. (New York, 1932) and John Dewey, Theory of Valuation
(Chicago, 1939).
ABRAHAM EDEL
[See also
Evil; Evolutionism; Happiness and Pleasure;
Hegelian...; Justice;
Nature; Platonism; Pragmatism;
Socialism;
Utilitarianism.]
