Persons Influential in The Field of Ethics
- Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC)
- Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)
- Plato (424/423 BC – 348/347 BC)
- Aristippus (c. 435-c. 356 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)
- Mencius (c. 372 – c. 289 BCE)
- Epicurus (341 BCE – 270 BCE)
- Jesus (7-2 BC/BCE — 30-36 AD/CE)
- Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135)
- Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
- Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
- Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
- David Hume (1711–1776)
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
- Georg W. F. Hegel (1770–1831)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
- Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
- William James (1842–1910)
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948)
- John Dewey (1859–1952)
- G. E. Moore (1873–1958)
- Paul Tillich (1886–1965)
- Karl Barth (1886–1968)
- J. L. Mackie (1917–1981)
- G.E.M. Anscombe (1919–2001)
- John Rawls (1921–2002)
- Bernard Williams (1929–2003)
- Philippa Foot (1920–2010)
- Alasdair MacIntyre (1929 – )
- Thomas Nagel (1937 – )
- Derek Parfit (1942 – )
- Peter Singer (1946 – )
- Jonathan Dancy (1946 – )
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