Jerome B. Schneewind (The Johns Hopkins University)

The Invention of Autonomy

A History of Modern Moral Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

J. B. Schneewind's book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy. It sets Kant's ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 650
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9780521479387
• ISBN-10: 052147938X
• Artikelnr.: 22067910

Inhaltsangabe

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.