Modern Moral Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-521-86047-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

In this magisterial study, one of our leading moral philosophers refutes the charge (originally made by Elizabeth Anscombe) that modern ethics is incoherent because it essentially depends on theological and religious assumptions that it cannot acknowledge. Stephen Darwall's panoramic picture starts with the seventeenth-century thinker Grotius and tells the story continuously down to the time of Kant, exploring what was in fact a completely new way of doing ethics based on secular ideas of human psychology and universal accountability. He shows that thinkers from Grotius to Kant are profoundly united by this modern approach, and that it helped them to create a theory of natural human rights that remains of great political relevance today. He further shows that this new way of thinking provides conceptual resources that are far from exhausted, and that moral philosophy in this idiom still has a vibrant future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Darwall, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Grotius; 2. Hobbes and Pufendorf; 3. Locke and Cumberland; 4. Spinoza, Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Leibniz; 5. Hutcheson and Butler; 6. Hume and Smith; 7. The British Rationalists and Reid; 8. Rousseau and Kant.

Über Autor(innen)

Darwall, Stephen
Stephen Darwall teaches philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought', 1640–1740 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and of many other publications in moral philosophy and its history, including The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability (2006).