Essays on the history of moral philosophy / J.B. Schneewind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneewind, J. B. (Jerome B.), 1930-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern--History.

Ethics, Modern.

Ethics--History.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 447 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

History of moral philosophy

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Summary:

J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relations to earlier thinkers.

Contents:

Theory. Moral knowledge and moral principles

Victorian Matters. First principles and common-sense morality in Sidgwick's ethics ; Moral problems and moral philosophy in the Victorian Period

On the historiography of moral philosophy. Moral crisis and the history of ethics ; Modern moral philosophy : from beginning to end? : No discipline, no history : the case of moral philosophy ; Teaching the history of moral philosophy

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century moral philosophy. The divine corporation and the history of ethics ; Natural law ; The misfortunes of virtue ; Voluntarism and the foundations of ethics ; Hume and the religious significance of moral rationalism

On Kant. Why study Kant's Groundwork ; Autonomy, obligation, and virtue : an overview of Kant's moral philosophy ; Kant and Stoic ethics ; Toward enlightenment : Kant and the sources of darkness ; Kantian unsocial sociability : good out of evil

Moral psychology. The active powers

Afterword. Sixty years of philosophy in a life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780191572272

0191572276

0-19-172173-5

1-282-38349-3

9786612383496

0-19-157227-6

0-19-957667-X

OCLC:

539118030