Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John RawlsThe essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. The distinctive feature of this approach is to address substantive normative questions in moral and political philosophy through an analysis of the texts and theories of major figures in the history of the subject: Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Marx. By reconstructing the core of these theories in a way that is informed by contemporary theoretical concerns, the contributors show how the history of the subject is a resource for understanding present and perennial problems in moral and political philosophy. |
Contents
List of Contributors page vii | 1 |
Coercion Ideology and Education in Hobbess Leviathan | 36 |
The Hobbesian Side of Hume JEAN HAMPTON | 66 |
The Natural Goodness of Humanity JOSHUA COHEN | 102 |
Rousseau on the Problem of Evil | 140 |
Within the Limits of Reason ONORA ONEILL | 170 |
A Cosmopolitan Kingdom of Ends BARBARA HERMAN | 187 |
The Social Dimension | 214 |
Kant on the Objectivity of the Moral | 240 |
Priggish or Passional? NANCY SHERMAN | 270 |
Kant on the Right | 297 |
Kant on Aesthetic and Biological Purposiveness | 329 |
Kant on Ends and the Meaning of Life THOMAS W POGGE | 361 |
Community and Completion DANIEL BRUDNEY | 388 |
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