Title:
Essays on the history of moral philosophy
Author:
Schneewind, J. B. (Jerome B.), 1930-
ISBN:
9780199563012
9780199576678
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
xvii, 447 p. ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
Pt. I. Theory -- 1. Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles -- Pt. II. Victorian Matters -- 2. First Principles and Common-Sense Morality in Sidgwick's Ethics -- 3. Moral Problems and Moral Philosophy in the Victorian Period -- Pt. III. On the Historiography of Moral Philosophy -- 4. Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics -- 5. Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End? -- 6. No Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy -- 7. Teaching the History of Moral Philosophy -- Pt. IV. Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Moral Philosophy -- 8. The Divine Corporation and the History of Ethics -- 9. Natural Law -- 10. The Misfortunes of Virtue -- 11. Voluntarism and the Foundations of Ethics -- 12. Hume and the Religious Significance of Moral Rationalism -- Pt. V. On Kant -- 13. Why Study Kane's Groundwork? -- 14. Autonomy, Obligation, and Virtue: An Overview of Kant's Moral Philosophy -- 15. Kant and Stoic Ethics -- 16. Toward Enlightenment: Kant and the Sources of Darkness -- 17. Kantian Unsocial Sociability: Good Out of Evil -- Pt. VI. Moral Psychology -- 18. The Active Powers -- Pt. VII. Afterword -- 19. Sixty Years of Philosophy in a Life -- J. B. Schneewind: Bibliography.
Abstract:
J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.