Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant / Edition 1

by J. B. Schneewind

Overview

Originally issued as a two-volume edition in 1990, the anthology is now re-issued (with a new foreword) as a one-volume anthology. It is a companion to Schneewind's highly successful history of modern ethics, The Invention of Autonomy. The anthology provides many of the sources discussed in The Invention of Autonomy. The combined two volumes are an invaluable resource for the teaching of the history of modern moral philosophy. This volume contains excerpts from some thirty-two important seventeenth and eighteenth century moral philosophers. As well as well-known thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, and Kant, there are excerpts from a wide-range of philosophers never previously assembled in one text, such as Grotius, Pufendorf, Nicole, Clarke, Leibniz, Malebranche, Holbach and Paley. Including a substantial introduction and extensive bibliographies, it facilitates the study and teaching of early modern moral philosophy in its crucial formative period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521003049
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/09/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	696
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.77(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Prolegomena: some questions raised: 1. Michel de Montaigne; Part I. Reworking Natural Law: 2. Francisco Suarez; 3. Hugo Grotius; 4. Thomas Hobbes; 5. Richard Cumberland; 6. Samuel Pufendorf; 7. John Locke; Part II. Intellect and Morality: 8. Guillaume du Vair; 9. Rene Descartes; 10. Benedict de Spinoza; 11. Nicholas Malebranche; 12. Ralph Cudworth; 13. Samuel Clarke; 14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; 15. Christian Wolff; Part III. Epicureans and Egoists: 16. Pierre Gassendi; 17. Pierre Nicole; 18. Bernard Mandeville; 19. John Gay; 20. Claude Adrien Helvetius; 21. Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach; 22. William Paley; 23. Jeremy Bentham; Part IV. Autonomy and Responsibility: 24. The Earl of Shaftesbury; 25. Francis Hutcheson; 26. Joseph Butler; 27. David Hume; 28. Christian August Crusius; 29. Richard Price; 30. Jean-Jacques Rousseau; 31. Thomas Reid; 32. Immanuel Kant.

Editorial Reviews

"...this book is a major scholarly achievement." Ethics

"...[a] magnificent study of moral philosophy from Montaigne to Kant." New Republic

"It is designed to provoke research, generate controversy, recover lost insights, renew potentially useful moral idioms, and, as Hume might have said 'enlarge our view' of ourselves." Canadian Philosophical Reviews

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