The quest for a moral compass: a global history of ethics

1. On the capriciousness of gods and the tragedy of Man

2. Gods of reason

3. On human flourishing

4. Heaven and hell

5. Nirvana

6. The view from the mountains

7. Faith and power

8. Reason and Revelation

9. The human challenge

10. The revolutionary spirit and the reactionary soul

11. The human triumph

12. Passion, duty and consequence

13. The challenge of history

14. The death of God, the end of morality

15. The anguish of freedom

16. The ethics of liberation

17. The unravelling of morality

18. The search for ethical concrete

19. Confucianism, communism and the clash of civilizations

20. The Fall of Man.