The Development of Ethics: Volume 2: From Suarez to Rousseau
OUP Oxford (2008)
| Abstract | The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Volume 3 will continue the story up to Rawls's Theory of Justice. The present volume begins with Suarez's interpretation of Scholastic moral philosophy, and examines seventeenth- and eighteenth- century responses to the Scholastic outlook, to see how far they constitute a distinctively different conception of moral philosophy. The treatments of natural law by Grotius, Hobbes, Cumberland, and Pufendorf are treated in some detail. Disputes about moral facts, moral judgments, and moral motivation, are traced through Cudworth, Clarke, Balguy, Hutcheson, Hume, Price, and Reid. Butler's defence of a naturalist account of morality is examined and compared with the Aristotelian and Scholastic views discussed in Volume 1. The volume ends with a survey of the persistence of voluntarism in English moral philosophy, and a brief discussion of the contrasts and connexions between Rousseau and earlier views on natural law. The emphasis of the book is not purely descriptive, narrative, or exegetical, but also philosophical. Irwin discusses the comparative merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of the difficulties might be resolved. The book tries to present the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion that is still being carried on, and tries to help the reader to participate in this discussion. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780199543274 | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,631 |
| External links | This entry has no external links. Add one. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesTerence Irwin (1995). Plato's Ethics. Oxford University Press.
J. B. Schneewind (ed.) (2003). Moral Philosophy From Montaigne to Kant. Cambridge University Press.
Terence Irwin (2007). The Development of Ethics: Volume 1: From Socrates to the Reformation. Clarendon Press.
Stephen Buckle (1991). Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume. Oxford University Press.
J. B. Schneewind (2010). Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
Robert Heinaman (ed.) (1995). Aristotle and Moral Realism. Westview Press.
John Deigh (1996). The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian Theory. Cambridge University Press.
Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (1981). Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers, 1973-1980. Cambridge University Press.
J. B. Schneewind (1998). The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
Mark J. Cherry (ed.) (2004). Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
David C. Thomasma & David N. Weisstub (eds.) (2004). The Variables of Moral Capacity. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Analytics
Monthly downloads
Sorry, there are not enough data points to plot this chart.
|
Added to index2012-01-31Total downloads0Recent downloads (6 months)0How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
