Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

by Schneewind, J. B.

• ISBN13: 9780199563012
• ISBN10: 0199563012
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 volume ranges across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth cen

Author Biography

J. B. Schneewind is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied at Cornell and Princeton and has taught at Chicago, Yale, Princeton, Hunter, Stanford, Leicester, Halle, Helsinki, and Johns Hopkins. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been Chair of the Board of the Americal Philosopical Association and was awarded a Quinn Prize for Distinguished Service.

Table of Contents

Theory

Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles

Victorian Matters

First Principles and Common Sense Morality in Sidgwick's Ethics

Moral Problem and Moral Philosophy in the Victorian Period

On the Historiography of Moral Philosophy

Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics

Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End?

No Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy

Teaching the History of Moral Philosophy

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Moral Philosophy

The Divine Corporation and the History of Ethics

Natural Law

The Misfortune of Virtue

Voluntarism and the Foundations of Ethics

Hume and the Religious Significance of Moral Rationalism

On Kant

Why Study Kant's Groundwork?

Autonomy, Obligation and Virtue

Kant and Stoic Ethics

Towards Enlightenment

Kant on Unsocial Sociability

The Active Powers

Afterword

Sixty Years of Philosophy in a Life

B. Schneewind: Bibliography

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