Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant

Name: Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant
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ISBN: 9780521003049

ISBN-10: 0521003040

ISBN-13: 9780521003049

Edition: 2002

Authors: J. B. Schneewind

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With a new foreword by the author and now available as a single volume anthology, this reference work facilitates the study and teaching of early modern moral philosophy during its crucial, formative period.

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 696
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

J. B. Schneewindis a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author ofSidgwick’s Ethics and Victorian Moral PhilosophyandThe Invention of Autonomy.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Foreword to the One-Volume Reprint


Introduction


Aims of the Anthology


European Religious Controversies


Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas


Luther and Calvin


Stoicism and Epicureanism


Skepticism


The Classical Republic


Montaigne's Two Attitudes


General Problems for Moral Philosophy


Reworking Natural Law


Intellect and Morality


Epicureans and Egoists


Autonomy and Responsibility


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Prolegomena: Some Questions Raised


Michel de Montaigne


Introduction


Apology for Raymond Sebond


Of Repentance


Of Vanity


Of Physiognomy


Of Experience


Editor's Notes


Further Reading



Reworking Natural Law


Francisco Suarez


Introduction


On Law and God the Lawgiver


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Hugo Grotius


Introduction


On the Law of War and Peace


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Thomas Hobbes


Introduction


Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Richard Cumberland


Introduction


A Treatise of the Laws of Nature


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Samuel Pufendorf


Introduction


On the Duty of Man and Citizen


The Law of Nature and of Nations


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


John Locke


Introduction


An Essay Concerning Human Understanding


The Reasonableness of Christianity


Editor's Notes


Further Reading



Intellect and Morality


Guillaume Du Vair


Introduction


The Moral Philosophy of the Stoics


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Rene Descartes


Introduction


Discourse on Method


Principles of Philosophy


Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth and Queen Christina


Replies to Objections


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Benedict de Spinoza


Introduction


A Treatise on Religion and Politics


Ethics


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Nicholas Malebranche


Introduction


Treatise of Morality


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Ralph Cudworth


Introduction


A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Samuel Clarke


Introduction


A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz


Introduction


The Principles of Nature and of Grace, Based on Reason


On Wisdom


Felicity


Meditation on the Common Concept of Justice


Codex iuris gentium (Praefatio)


The Principles of Pufendorf


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Christian Wolff


Introduction


Reasonable Thoughts About the Actions of Men, for the Promotion of Their Happiness


Editor's Notes


Further Reading



Epicureans and Egoists


Pierre Gassendi


Introduction


Three Discourses of Happiness, Virtue, and Liberty


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Pierre Nicole


Introduction


Of Charity and Self-Love


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Bernard Mandeville


Introduction


The Fable of the Bees


An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


John Gay


Introduction


Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Claude Adrien Helvetius


Introduction


On the Mind


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach


Introduction


Universal Morality; or, The Duties of Man, Founded on Nature


System of Nature


Editor's Note


Further Reading


William Paley


Introduction


Moral and Political Philosophy


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Jeremy Bentham


Introduction


An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation


Theory of Legislation


Editor's Notes


Further Reading



Autonomy and Responsibility


The Earl of Shaftesbury


Introduction


Sensus communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour


Soliloquy; or, Advice to an Author


An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Francis Hutcheson


Introduction


An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Joseph Butler


Introduction


Sermons


Dissertation on Virtue


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


David Hume


Introduction


An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Christian August Crusius


Introduction


Guide to Rational Living


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Richard Price


Introduction


A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Introduction


Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men


On the Social Contract


Emile


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Thomas Reid


Introduction


Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Immanuel Kant


Introduction


Lectures of Mr. Kant on the Metaphysics of Morals


Editor's Notes


Further Reading


Supplemental Bibliography