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At the dawn of the twentieth century, G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica and Franz Brentano's The Origin of Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong set the agendas of anglophone analytic and continental phenomenological ethics. How those agendas played out against the turbulent backdrop of the last century is the subject of this compelling third volume in Stephen Darwall's history of moral philosophy. The first comprehensive treatment of the period, it is written by a prominent moral philosopher who is himself a participant in important ethical debates. Its central themes include analytic metaethics, the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger, and utilitarian normative theories and their critics: most prominently John Rawls. Other important figures include Sartre and Beauvoir, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, R. M. Hare, Christine Korsgaard, and - at the century's end - Charles Mills, whose 'nonideal theory' addressed the racial and gender oppression that mainstream ethical philosophy had hitherto steadfastly ignored.