Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant

Cambridge University Press, 12/9/2002
EAN 9780521802598, ISBN10: 0521802598

Hardcover, 694 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm
Language: English

This anthology contains excerpts from some thirty-two important seventeenth- and eighteenth-century moral philosophers. Including a substantial introduction and extensive bibliographies, the anthology facilitates the study and teaching of early modern moral philosophy in its crucial formative period. 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. Originally issued as a two-volume edition in 1990, the anthology is now re-issued with a new foreword by Professor Schneewind, as a one-volume anthology to serve as a companion to his highly successful history of modern ethics, The Invention of Autonomy. The anthology provides many of the sources discussed in The Invention of Autonomy and taken together the two volumes will be an invaluable resource for the teaching of the history of modern moral philosophy.

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.