Stephen Darwall is professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is the author of Impartial Reason and The British Moralists and the Internal "Ought" 1640-1740.

Preface -- Introduction -- What is Philosophical Ethics? -- Metaethics -- Metaethics: The Basic Questions -- Naturalism -- Theological Voluntarism -- Rational Intuitionism -- The Ideal Judgment Theory -- The Error Theory And Ethical Relativism -- Noncognitivism -- Interlude -- Philosophical Moralists -- Hobbes I -- Hobbes II -- Mill I -- Mill II -- Kant I -- Kant II -- Philosophical Ethics Without Morality? -- Nietzsche -- Aristotle I -- Aristotle II -- Ethics Of Care

This book shows how Hobbes, Mill, Kant, Aristotle, and Nietzsche all did ethical philosophy? It introduces students to ethics from a distinctively philosophical perspective, one that weaves together central ethical questions.