Colin Heydt

Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781108421096
• ISBN-10: 1108421091
• Artikelnr.: 48456195

Autorenporträt

Colin Heydt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. His work has been published in numerous journals and he is the author of Rethinking Mill's Ethics: Character and Aesthetic Education (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Foundations: 1. 'Morality not in accordance with virtues but in
accordance with duties': the Pufendorfian shift in moral philosophy; 2. The
structure of practical ethics: duty and virtue; 3. The structure of
practical ethics: duty and right; Part II. Relations to God: 4. Duties to
God, revelation, and morality's history; 5. Breaking with convention: Hume,
Smith, moral philosophy, and the God of natural religion; Part III.
Relations to Self: 6. Moral relations to self and the significance of
self-harm; 7. Anthropological optimism, pessimism, and the scope of
self-cultivation; Part IV. Relations to Others: 8. Relating to others:
natural rights and community; 9. Why not polygamy? Natural law and the
family; 10. Political jurisprudence and its limits.