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Informationen zum Autor Natalie Brender is Policy Advisor to the Canadian Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Larry Krasnoff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of Charleston! South Carolina. Klappentext This book relates Kant's work to the historical context of his predecessors. Zusammenfassung The distinguished authors in the collection continue Schneewind's project by relating Kant's work to the historical context of his predecessors and to the empirical context of human agency. This will be a valuable resource for advanced students in philosophy! the history of ideas! and the history of political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Autonomy in Context: 1. Justus Lipsius and the revival of stoicism in late sixteenth-century Europe John M. Cooper; 2. Affective perfectionism: community with God without common measure Jennifer A. Herdt; 3. Autonomy and the invention of theodicy Mark Larrimore; 4. Protestant natural law theory: a general interpretation Knud Haakonssen; 5. Autonomy in modern natural law Stephen Darwall; Part II. Autonomy in Practice: 6. Pythagoras enlightened: Kant on the effect of moral philosophy Larry Krasnoff; 7. What is disorientation in thinking? Natalie Brender; 8. Autonomy, plurality and public reason Onora O'Neill; 9. Trapped between Dewey and Kant: the current situation of moral philosophy Richard Rorty.
