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HISTORY OF ETHICS
Volume 1 - To 30 BC
Ancient Wisdom and Folly

by Sanderson Beck

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CONTENTS

Contents
Introduction
Ethics
Prehistoric Cultures
Summary and Evaluation
Chronological Index
Bibliography

CHINA To 30 BC
Shang, Chou and the Classics
Confucius, Mencius and Hsun-tzu
Taoism and Mo-tzu
Legalism, Ch'in Empire and Han Dynasty

NEAR EAST To 323 BC
Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites
Egypt
Israel
Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires

GREECE To 323 BC
Greek Culture to 500 BC
Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC
Greek Theatre
Socrates, Xenophon, and Plato
Isocrates, Aristotle, and Diogenes
Philip, Demosthenes, and Alexander

INDIA To 30 BC
Vedas and Upanishads
Mahavira and Jainism
Buddha and Buddhism
Political and Social Ethics of India
Hindu Philosophy
Literature of India

HELLENISTIC ERA And ROME To 30 BC
Hellenistic Era
Roman Expansion to 133 BC
Roman Revolution and Civil Wars
Plautus, Terence, and Cicero

Introduction

Purposes and Motives
Philosophical Premises and Methods
Limitations

Ethics

Metaphysical Foundation
Universal Values
Applying Universal Values

Prehistoric Cultures

Evolution of Life
Human Evolution
Lemuria and Atlantis
Europe
Africa
America

NEAR EAST To 323 BC

Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites

Sumer
Sargon the Akkadian
Sumerian Revival
Sumerian Literature
Epic of Gilgamesh
Isin, Larsa, Eshnunna, Mari, Assur, and Babylon
Hammurabi's Babylon
Kassites, Hurrians, and Assyria
Babylonian Literature
Hittites

Egypt

Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
Hyksos Shepherd Kings
New Kingdom Empire
Egypt 1085-323 BC
Early Egyptian Literature
Book of the Dead
Later Egyptian Literature

Israel

Genesis
Moses
Conquest of Canaan
David and the Psalms
Solomon and the Wisdom Books
Israel and Judah Divided
Amos, Hosea, Isaiah and Micah
Judah's Fall and Jeremiah
Ezekiel and Babylonian Isaiah
Jews in the Persian Empire

Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires

Assyrian Empire
Babylonian Empire
Zarathushtra
Persian Empire to 500 BC
Persian-Greek Wars

INDIA To 30 BC

Vedas and Upanishads

Harappan Civilization
Rig Veda
Sama Veda
Yajur Veda
Atharva Veda
Brahmanas
Aranyakas
Early Upanishads
Kena, Katha, Isha, and Mundaka
Later Upanishads

Mahavira and Jainism

Parshva
Mahavira
Jainism

Buddha and Buddhism

Siddartha Gautama
Buddha
Doctrine (Dharma)
Dhammapada
Questions of King Milinda
Community (Sangha)

Political and Social Ethics of India

Magadhan Ascendancy
Alexander's Invasion of India
Mauryan Empire, Ashoka and Sri Lanka
Dharma Sutras
Laws of Manu
Artha Shastra
Kama Sutra

Hindu Philosophy

Nyaya and Vaishesika
Mimamsa and Vedanta
Samkhya and Yoga
Bhagavad-Gita

Literature of India

Ramayana
Mahabharata
Jatakas
Panchatantra

CHINA To 30 BC

Shang, Zhou and the Classics

Shang Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Yi Jing (Book of Changes)
Shi Jing (Book of Odes)
Li (Propriety)
Shu Jing (Book of Documents)
Spring and Autumn Era
Sun-zi's Art of War
Period of Warring States

Confucius, Mencius and Xun-zi

Confucius
Teachings of Confucius
Followers of Confucius
Mencius
Xun-zi
Later Confucian Works

Daoism and Mo-zi

Lao-zi
Mo-zi
Teachings of Mo-zi
Moism
Zhuang-zi
Lie-zi
Songs of Chu
Huai-nan-zi

Legalism, Qin Empire and Han Dynasty

Guan-zi
Book of ShangYang
Han Fei-zi
Qin Empire 221-206 BC
Founding the Han Dynasty 206-141 BC
Wu Di's Reign 141-87 BC
Confucian China 87-30 BC

GREECE To 323 BC

Greek Culture to 500 BC

Crete, Mycenae and Dorians
Iliad
Odyssey
Hesiod and Homeric Hymns
Aristocrats, Tyrants, and Poets
Spartan Military Laws
Athenian Political Laws
Aesop's Fables
Pythagoras and Early Philosophy

Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC

Persian Invasions
Athenian Empire 479-431 BC
Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC
Spartan Hegemony 404-371 BC
Theban Hegemony 371-360 BC
Syracusan Tyranny of Dionysius 405-367 BC

Greek Theatre

Aeschylus

The Persians
The Suppliant Maidens
Seven Against Thebes
Prometheus Bound
Agamemnon
Libation Bearers
The Eumenides

Sophocles

Ajax
Antigone
Oedipus the Tyrant
The Women of Trachis
Electra
Philoctetes
Oedipus at Colonus

Euripides

Rhesus
Alcestis
Medea
Hippolytus
Heracleidae
Andromache
Hecuba
The Cyclops
Heracles
The Suppliant Women
The Trojan Women
Electra
Helen
Iphigenia in Tauris
Ion
The Phoenician Women
Orestes
Iphigenia in Aulis
The Bacchae

Aristophanes

The Acharnians
The Knights
The Clouds
The Wasps
Peace
The Birds
Lysistrata
The Thesmophoriazusae
The Frogs
The Ecclesiazusae
Plutus

Socrates, Xenophon, and Plato

Empedocles
Socrates
Xenophon's Socrates

Defense of Socrates
Memoirs of Socrates
Symposium
Oikonomikos

Xenophon

Cyropaedia
Hiero
Ways and Means

Plato's Socrates

Alcibiades
Charmides
Protagoras
Laches
Lysis
Menexenus
Hippias
Euthydemus
Meno
Gorgias
Phaedrus
Symposium
Euthyphro
Defense of Socrates
Crito
Phaedo

Plato's Republic
Plato's Later Work

Seventh Letter
Timaeus
Critias
Theaetetus
Sophist
Politician
Philebus
Laws

Isocrates, Aristotle, and Diogenes

Hippocrates
Isocrates
Aristotle
Aristotle's Rhetoric
Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's Politics
Diogenes

Philip, Demosthenes, and Alexander

Dionysius II, Dion, and Timoleon in Sicily
Wars and Macedonian Expansion under Philip
Demosthenes and Aeschines
Alexander's Conquest of the Persian Empire

HELLENISTIC ERA And ROME To 30 BC

Hellenistic Era

Battles of Alexander's Successors
Egypt Under the Ptolemies
Alexandrian Poetry
Seleucid Empire
Judea in the Hellenistic Era
Antigonid Macedonia and Greece
Xenocrates, Pyrrho, and Theophrastus
Menander's New Comedy
Epicurus and the Hedonists
Zeno and the Stoics

Roman Expansion to 133 BC

Roman and Etruscan Kings
Republic of Rome 509-343 BC
Rome's Conquest of Italy 343-264 BC
Rome at War with Carthage 264-201 BC
Republican Rome's Imperialism 201-133 BC

Roman Revolution and Civil Wars

Reforms of the Gracchi Brothers
Marius and Sulla
Pompey, Crassus, Caesar, and Cato
Julius Caesar Dictator
Brutus, Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra

Plautus, Terence, and Cicero

Plautus

The Menaechmi
The Asses
The Merchant
The Swaggering Soldier
Stichus
The Pot of Gold
Curculio
Epidicus
The Captives
The Rope
Trinummus
Mostelleria
Pseudolus
The Two Bacchides
Amphitryo
Casina
The Persian
Truculentus

Terence

The Woman of Andros
The Mother-In-Law
The Self-Tormentor
The Eunuch
Phormio
The Brothers

Lucretius
Catullus
Virgil
Cicero
Cicero on Oratory
Cicero's Republic and Laws
Cicero on Ethics

Contents Introduction Ethics Prehistoric Cultures Summary and Evaluation Chronological Index Bibliography	CHINA To 30 BC Shang, Chou and the Classics Confucius, Mencius and Hsun-tzu Taoism and Mo-tzu Legalism, Ch'in Empire and Han Dynasty
NEAR EAST To 323 BC Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites Egypt Israel Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires	GREECE To 323 BC Greek Culture to 500 BC Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC Greek Theatre Socrates, Xenophon, and Plato Isocrates, Aristotle, and Diogenes Philip, Demosthenes, and Alexander
INDIA To 30 BC Vedas and Upanishads Mahavira and Jainism Buddha and Buddhism Political and Social Ethics of India Hindu Philosophy Literature of India	HELLENISTIC ERA And ROME To 30 BC Hellenistic Era Roman Expansion to 133 BC Roman Revolution and Civil Wars Plautus, Terence, and Cicero

HISTORY OF ETHICS Volume 1 - To 30 BC Ancient Wisdom and Folly

by Sanderson Beck

This book has now been published. For information on ordering click here. CONTENTS

Contents Introduction Ethics Prehistoric Cultures Summary and Evaluation Chronological Index Bibliography

NEAR EAST To 323 BC

INDIA To 30 BC

CHINA To 30 BC

GREECE To 323 BC

HELLENISTIC ERA And ROME To 30 BC

HISTORY OF ETHICS
Volume 1 - To 30 BC
Ancient Wisdom and Folly

This book has now been published.
For information on ordering click here.

CONTENTS

Contents
Introduction
Ethics
Prehistoric Cultures
Summary and Evaluation
Chronological Index
Bibliography