Preface
Acknowledgements
A note on references and abbreviations
Introduction
1. Themes in the history of modern moral philosophy
Part I. The Rise and Fall of Modern Natural Law: 2. Natural law: from intellectualism to voluntarism
3. Setting religion aside: republicanism and skepticism
4. Natural law restated: Suarez and Grotius
5. Grotianism at the limit: Hobbes
6. A morality of love: Cumberland
7. The central synthesis: Pufendorf
8. The collapse of modern natural law: Locke and Thomasius
Part II. Perfectionism and Rationality: 9. Origins of modern perfectionism
10. Paths to God: I. The Cambridge Platonists
11. Paths to God: II. Spinoza and Malebranche
12. Leibniz: Counterrevolutionary perfectionism
Part III. Toward a World on its Own: 13. Morality without salvation
14. The recovery of virtue
15. The austerity of morals: Clarke and Mandeville
16. The limits of love: Hutcheson and Butler
17. Hume: virtue naturalized
18. Against a fatherless world
19. The noble effects of self-love
Part IV. Autonomy and Divine Order: 20. Perfection and will: Wolff and Crusius
21. Religion, morality, and reform
22. The invention of autonomy
23. Kant in the history of moral philosophy
Epilogue: 24. Pythagoras, Socrates, and Kant: understanding the history of moral philosophy
Bibliography
Index of names
Index of subjects
Index of biblical citations.
