The Modern Guise of the Good

Herausgeber: Orsi, Francesco

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first-ever collection dedicated to the guise of the good in early modern and later Western philosophy. It spans three centuries from Thomas Hobbes to Henry Sidgwick and features original contributions by some of the finest scholars. The volume was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Explorations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781032624402
• ISBN-10: 103262440X
• Artikelnr.: 68711804

Autorenporträt

Francesco Orsi is Associate Professor in Theoretical Ethics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published on value theory, reasons, moral psychology, and the history of ethics. He is the author of Value Theory (2015) and The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the modern guise of the good 1. Goodness and motivation 2.
Locke on the guise of the good 3. Spinoza's guise of the good: getting to
the bottom of 3p9s 4. The guise of the good in Leibniz 5. Kant and the "Old
formula of the schools" 6. Duality of motivation and the guise of the good
in Kant's practical philosophy 7. Mill's proof and the guise of the good 8.
Sidgwick and the many guises of the good