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Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

J B Schneewind author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:3rd Dec '09

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J. B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The volume ranges across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries: it includes Schneewind's early anti-foundationalist 'Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles', the classic 'The Misfortunes of Virtue', and other early essays on Kant's relation to pre-Kantian moral philosophy; also a long piece on 'The Active Powers', and Schneewind's own interpretation of Kant's moral philosophy. These writings provide excellent introductions to Schneewind's two long books, and supplement them in important ways.

This is a fine collection of essays by one of our profession's most influential and learned historians of ethics. It is an important resource for those researching and teaching moral philosophy and its history. * Anthony Skelton, Mind *
I can honestly say that reading the essays is an inestimable joy. They are constantly fascinating, careful in design, lucid, beautifully written, precisely argued, rich, and always challenging. * Michael L. Morgan, Journal of Utilitas *
His two long books and his essays are unrivalled in their combination of narrative skill, historical learning, and philosophical intelligence. Both the philosopher and the intellectual historian can learn from these books and essays. * T. H. Irwin, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

ISBN: 9780199563012

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 31mm

Weight: 835g

468 pages