Preface and acknowledgments -- Ethics and economics -- Introduction -- Eudaimonia : the ancients and the good life … -- The impact of the ancients -- Conceptions of rationality: thin, thick, and ancient -- Ethics and public policy -- The … problem of pathological consumption -- Economics, ethics and the environment -- Reason, ethics, and the end of life -- Towards …

and political science" Malthus endorsed. This book reconstructs Malthus's meta-ethics, his normative ethics and his … applied ethics on such topics as population, poverty, sexuality and war and slavery. They show how Malthus's understanding of … for received moral rules, but these were meant to justify a rather traditional normative ethics, quite far from Benthamite …