Cosmic justice and the Pre-Socratics -- Plato and the improvement of the soul -- Aristotle and nature's teleology -- The divine logos and the goodness of creation -- Augustine : God and the soul -- Thomas Aquinas : a creational ethic -- Scotus, Ockham, and the Reformers : what God commands -- Right reason and the scientific revolution -- Human nature and moral teleology -- Kant's moral worldview -- Hegel : idealist ethics -- Ethics as empirical science -- Nietzsche : fact and value with no God -- In retrospect.