The invention of autonomy : a history of modern moral philosophy / J.B. Schneewind.
1998
BJ301 .S35 1998 (Mapit)
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Title
The invention of autonomy : a history of modern moral philosophy / J.B. Schneewind.
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description
xxii, 623 pages ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
1. Themes in the history of modern moral philosophy
Pt. 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 and the limit: Hobbes. 6. A morality of love: Cumberland. 7. The central synthesis: Pufendorf. 8. The collapse of modern natural law: Locke and Thomasius
Pt. II. Perfectionism and rationality. 9. Origins of modern perfectionism. 10. Paths and God: I. The Cambridge Platonists. 11. Paths to God: II. Spinoza and Malebranche. 12. Leibniz: Counterrevolutionary perfectionism
Pt. III. Toward a world of its own. 13. Morality without salvation.
Pt. 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 and the limit: Hobbes. 6. A morality of love: Cumberland. 7. The central synthesis: Pufendorf. 8. The collapse of modern natural law: Locke and Thomasius
Pt. II. Perfectionism and rationality. 9. Origins of modern perfectionism. 10. Paths and God: I. The Cambridge Platonists. 11. Paths to God: II. Spinoza and Malebranche. 12. Leibniz: Counterrevolutionary perfectionism
Pt. III. Toward a world of its own. 13. Morality without salvation.
Summary
This book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential 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. In its range, its analyses of many philosophers not usually considered in histories of ethics, and its discussions of the interweaving of religious and political concerns with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the developments that led up to Kant's ethics. Extensive quotations allow the reader to understand the philosophy through the vocabularies that the philosophers themselves used.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-592) and indexes.
Location
STA
Call Number
BJ301 .S35 1998
Language
English
ISBN
0521473993
9780521473996
052147938X paperback
9780521479387 paperback
9780521473996
052147938X paperback
9780521479387 paperback
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