Kelly Rogers (ed.)

Self-Interest

An Anthology of Philosophical Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
Herausgeber: Rogers, Kelly

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together the efforts of twenty-three great thinkers addressing such themes as the nature of self-interest, its connection to benevolence and morality, and its implications for political theory. The philosophical results are rich and varied.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780415912525
• ISBN-10: 0415912520
• Artikelnr.: 21857967

Autorenporträt

Kelly Rogers

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction; I. CLASSICAL ERA: Introduction
1. Plato (427-347 B.C.)
2. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
3. Epicureanism
4. Stoicism; II. MEDIEVAL ERA: Introduction
5. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
6. Thomas of Aquinas (c.1224-1274); III: EARLY MODERN ERA: Introduction
7. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
8. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
9. Bernard Mandeville (c. 1670-1733)
10. Joseph Butler (1692-1752)
11. Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)
12. David Hume (1711-1776)
13. Adam Smith (1723-1790)
14. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
IV: NINETEENTH CENTURY: Introduction
15. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
16. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
17. Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900)
18. William James (1842-1910)
19. Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900)
V. TWENTIETH CENTURY: Introduction
20. John Dewey (1859-1952)
21. Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
22. David Gauthier (b. 1932).