This text casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. The editor has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices today. This book offers a new way of connecting today’s ethics to the great ethical sources of the past - classical, medieval, and early modern -and presents a wise and witty critique of the current practice of professional ethics .