Moral Concepts and Their History

ISBN-13: 9780367764760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 116 str.

Edward Skidelsky

Opis

This edited volume is devoted to history of moral concepts, including shame, contempt, happiness, conscience, cleanliness and "the brick".

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Hans in Luck or the moral economy of happiness in the modern age 2. What moral philosophers can learn from the history of moral concepts 3. Conscience: what is its history and does it have a future? 4. What’s wrong with subjective rights? 5. How contempt became a passion 6. Shame in early modern thought: from sin to sociability 7. ‘Next to godliness?’ exploring cleanliness in peace and war 8. ‘You’re a brick’: colloquialism and the history of moral concepts

O autorze

Edward Skidelsky is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK.