The Invention of Autonomy

A History of Modern Moral Philosophy

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ID23398308
AuthorsJerome B Schneewind
Year1997
Volume29
Issue1
Publication date1997-12-13
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueInvention of Autonomy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511818288
OpenAlexW2112501564
Open LibraryOL34479482M
ISBN9780511818288
LanguageEN
Citations received80

This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organised into four main sections, each exploring moral philosophy by discussing the work of many influential philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In an epilogue the author discusses Kant's view of his own historicity, and of the aims of moral philosophy. In its range, in its analyses of many philosophers not discussed elsewhere, and in revealing the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kant's ethics

Epistemology · Eudaimonia · Morality · Natural law · Perfectionism (psychology) · Political science · Skepticism · Theology · Virtue · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Religious studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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