Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant

ISBN-13: 9780521860475 / Angielski

Stephen Darwall

Opis

This magisterial study tells the story of a new way of doing ethics, starting in the seventeenth century, that was based on secular ideas of human psychology and universal accountability. It also shows that this modern approach remains relevant to us today and that it has a vibrant future.

Recenzje

'Modern moral philosophy emerged from its medieval and ancient ancestors through the development of new ideas about natural law.  Stephen Darwall, in this masterly work, explains the development of these ideas and how they became central to the debates of the eighteenth century over the nature of morality and the sources of moral knowledge.  His explanation is a powerful argument for the juridical conception of morality that took form in the work of Grotius and reached its most profound exposition in the work of Kant.' John Deigh, University of Texas, Austin

Spis treści

1. Grotius; 2. Hobbes and Pufendorf; 3. Locke and Cumberland; 4. Spinoza, Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Leibniz; 5. Hutcheson and Butler; 6. Hume and Smith; 7. The British Rationalists and Reid; 8. Rousseau and Kant.