Development of Ethics, Volume 3 - From Kant to Rawls

Zusatztext For it truly is a great book, and I doubt that we will see a history of ethics similar in scope and ambition for some time to come. Informationen zum Autor Terence Irwin is Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College. From 1975 to 2006 he taught at Cornell University. Klappentext This is the third of three volumes which together comprise a selective historical and critical study of the development of moral philosophy. Here Terence Irwin covers the period from the late 18th to the late 20th century, with illuminating discussion of the Kantian tradition, utilitarianism, intuitionism, naturalism, idealism, and non-cognitivism. Zusammenfassung This is the third of three volumes which together comprise a selective historical and critical study of the development of moral philosophy. Here Terence Irwin covers the period from the late 18th to the late 20th century, with illuminating discussion of the Kantian tradition, utilitarianism, intuitionism, naturalism, idealism, and non-cognitivism.

Product details

• Authors: Terence Irwin, Terence H. Irwin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2009
• EAN: 9780199571789
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957178-9
• No. of pages: 1048
• Series: Development of Ethics; Development of Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -