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Present book expounds and combines in its comprehensive compass the Traditional as well as Contemporary Moral philosophy, Epicureanism, Stoicism and Socratic Ethics are not only the most ancient schools of Greek Moral Philosophy, but they reappear in Modern Times in Schools of Hedonism, Utilitarianism, Categorical Imperative. The topics of Moral Judgment, Standards of Goodness, and Criteria such as Happiness, Virtue, Intuitionism and wisdom have been dealt with critically. There are subjects of Evolutionism, Moral Progress and Theories of Punishment discussed. In Contemporary Moral Philosophy, the controversy of natural and non-natural property of Goodness, Meta-Ethics, Emotivism, Ethics and Language, Belief and Mood, Right and Good, Scope of Reason, Natural and Moral adjective, Prescriptivism, Prescriptivism, Derivation of Normative conclusion and Existentialistic Ethics have been thoroughly treated and critically considered. There is comparative survey of Western and Indian approaches to Ethics. Shruti and Smriti, Moral thought of Epics, Samhitas, Karma yoga of Geeta and Concept of "Dharma" have been systematically considered. Problem of Freedom as Psychological and Moral Freedom have been treated. Jain Ethics, Doctrine of Karma, Anuvrata, Samvara and Nirjara have been critically articulated. .Gandhian concept of Satyagraha, Non-Violence and Doctrine of Liberation in Indian Philosophy in general and in different systems of Vedanta in particular have been expounded and their relevance shown in Modern Humanistic and Renascent Times. The author undertakes the most recent issues of Moral Concern in Philosophy.