Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

by Schneewind, J. B.

• ISBN13: 9780199576678
• ISBN10: 019957667X
• Format: Paperback
• 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

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Theory
Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles	p. 3
Victorian Matters
First Principles and Common-Sense Morality in Sidgwick's Ethics	p. 21
Moral Problems and Moral Philosophy in the Victorian Period	p. 42
On the Historiography of Moral Philosophy
Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics	p. 65
Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End?	p. 84
No Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy	p. 107
Teaching the History of Moral Philosophy	p. 127
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Moral Philosophy
The Divine Corporation and the History of Ethics	p. 149
Natural Law	p. 170
The Misfortunes of Virtue	p. 176
Voluntarism and the Foundations of Ethics	p. 202
Hume and the Religious Significance of Moral Rationalism	p. 222
On Kant
Why Study Kant's Groundwork?	p. 239
Autonomy, Obligation, and Virtue: An Overview of Kant's Moral Philosophy	p. 248
Kant and Stoic Ethics	p. 277
Toward Enlightenment: Kant and the Sources of Darkness	p. 296
Kantian Unsocial Sociability: Good Out of Evil	p. 319
Moral Psychology
The Active Powers	p. 343
Afterword
Sixty Years of Philosophy in a Life	p. 405
Bibliography	p. 425
Name Index	p. 433
Subject Index	p. 43
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