530a. C.- 444 BC.- SOPHISTS: 427 BC.- PLATO : 340 BC- ETHOICS: They 354.- SAINT 1079.

C- ETHOICS: They 354.- SAINT 1079.- ABELARDO:

PYTHAGORAS OF The moral value and Begins the ethics of said that man had a AUGUSTINE: Christian What is morally bad or
PSALMS: Harmony actions of individuals personal perfection destiny, although that ethics, ethics deals good is not the
with the universe, are valid only through until reaching wisdom did not prevent them with the sovereign execution of the act,
“natural soul” that him and for him: Man since only the wise are from having an idea of good, towards which but the prior
when united with the is the measure of all happy the soul and the gods all our actions tend, disposition of the
universe reflects: things and freedom in the souls receive moral agent.
beauty and harmony, human being. illumination from God
giving way to the idea

Ancient Age 3500 BC – 476 AD Middle Ages 476 AD - 1492

500 BC C.- 468 BC- SOCRATES :
PRESOCRATICS: “Know yourself” and
Founder of moral “Nothing in excess.”
philosophy, introduces Intellectualism: if
the concept of ethics. someone knows good,
Mentions: prudence, he cannot do evil, that
strength, temperance is why man has to be
and justice wise. Only the ignorant
are bad
384 BC- ARISTOTLE: 204.- NEOPLATONICS: 1033.- SAN ANSELMO: 1225.- SAINT THOMAS
Man is an intentional Morality consists of a AQUINAS:
being, he acts to higher principle. A person is just not so
achieve ends. He Plotinus: morality is much because of what Integrates an ethic of
achieved that the Eudaimonistic. Moral he wants, but because law. Human action,
study of the moral act virtue has 4 levels: of the reason why he which can be moral, is
is considered part of political, cathartic, wants it. that which has
philosophy purified soul and knowledge and will.
exemplary.
1266.- DUNS SCOTO: 1533.- MONTAIGNE: 1632.- SPINOZA: Its 1844.- FEDERICO 1873.- INTUITIONISM: 1919.-
Will is more important Men do not agree on axis is obligation and NIETZCHE: A Morality moves from PRESCRIPTIVISM: The
than intelligence, its anything, the law. Human laws superman, a new man, being to duty, from language of morality is
main attribute is disagreement reigns are not distinguished redeemed by the fact to value not persuasive, but
omnipotence that inclines us to from divine ones, since power of his own will. prescriptive, it
distrust that something there is no distinction becomes universal
can be known with between what is
certainty human and divine.

Middle Ages Modern Age 1492 - 1789 Contemporary Age 1879 - present

1290 OCKHAM: 1724.- KANT: Ethics 1845.- KARL MAX : The 1944.- POSTMODERN
Voluntary conception depends on the form, idea of the new and ETHICS: Rejects
of man, predominance 1623.- PASCAL : The on the imperative free man is present in 1889.- EMOTIVISM : universalism and
of will over intellect or human being seeks considered in itself, his criticisms of non- Ethics cannot be said argumentation. There
reason happiness, but it is not independent of any Marxist ethics and or expressed. It has to is a strong tendency
outside of him, nor good, of any content. idealism. be shown, it can only towards emotivism
inside him, it is outside be captured and fragmentation
and inside him at the emotionally.
same time.