Essays on the history of moral philosophy
By: J.B. Schneewind
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780199563012; 9780199576678
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-432) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Theory. Moral knowledge and moral principles; title: Victorian Matters. First principles and common-sense morality in Sidgwick's ethics ; Moral problems and moral philosophy in the Victorian Period; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Moral psychology. The active powers; title: Afterword. Sixty years of philosophy in a life.