The invention of autonomy : a history of modern moral philosophy /
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...
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Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Themes in the history of modern moral philosophy
- pt. I. The rise and fall of modern natural law. 2. Natural law: From intellectualism to voluntarism. 3. Setting religion aside: Republicanism and skepticism. 4. Natural law restated: Suarez and Grotius. 5. Grotianism and the limit: Hobbes. 6. A morality of love: Cumberland. 7. The central synthesis: Pufendorf. 8. The collapse of modern natural law: Locke and Thomasius
- pt. II. Perfectionism and rationality. 9. Origins of modern perfectionism. 10. Paths and God: I. The Cambridge Platonists. 11. Paths to God: II. Spinoza and Malebranche. 12. Leibniz: Counterrevolutionary perfectionism
- pt. III. Toward a world of its own. 13. Morality without salvation.
