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.
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"...[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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This anthology contains excerpts from some thirty-two important 17th and 18th 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.
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Further Reading, Editor's Notes, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, New York, Princeton University Press, Clarendon Press, Saint Thomas, John Locke, David Hume, Kegan Paul, Scottish Enlightenment, Cambridge Platonists, Church of England, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, Harvard University Press, Hugo Grotius, Saint Augustine, French Enlightenment, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Samuel Clarke, Jesus Christ, Johns Hopkins University Press, Nicomachean Ethics New!
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Michel de Montaigne is discussed in a section of the Introduction to this anthology, and little need be added here. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
moral necessitation, nature obligates, natural precepts, egoistic psychology, natural lawyers, imperfect right, classical republic, voluntarist view, moral approbation, modern moral philosophy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Further Reading, Editor's Notes, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, New York, Princeton University Press, Clarendon Press, Saint Thomas, John Locke, David Hume, Kegan Paul, Scottish Enlightenment, Cambridge Platonists, Church of England, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, Harvard University Press, Hugo Grotius, Saint Augustine, French Enlightenment, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Samuel Clarke, Jesus Christ, Johns Hopkins University Press, Nicomachean Ethics New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 5 pages
- The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on 4 pages
- History of English Utilitarianism by Ernest Albee on 4 pages
- A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume on 4 pages
- Platonic Renaissance in England by Ernst Cassirer in Front Matter, page 291, and page 501
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- The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740 by Stephen Darwall on 9 pages
- Kant and the Problem of God by Gordon E. Michalson Jr on 4 pages
- Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy by John Rawls in Front Matter, page 65, and page 69
- The Cambridge Companion to Kant (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Paul Guyer on page 334, page 335, and Back Matter
- Western Ethics: An Historical Introduction by Robert L. Arrington in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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