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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor J. B. Schneewind is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied at Cornell and Princeton and has taught at Chicago, Yale, Princeton, Hunter, Stanford, Leicester, Halle, Helsinki, and Johns Hopkins. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been Chair of the Board of the Americal Philosopical Association and was awarded a Quinn Prize for Distinguished Service. Klappentext 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 essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relations to earlier thinkers. Zusammenfassung 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 essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relations to earlier thinkers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Theory 1: Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles Part II: Victorian Matters 2: First Principles and Common Sense Morality in Sidgwick's Ethics 3: Moral Problem and Moral Philosophy in the Victorian Period Part III: On the Historiography of Moral Philosophy 4: Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics 5: Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End? 6: No Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy 7: Teaching the History of Moral Philosophy Part IV: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Moral Philosophy 8: The Divine Corporation and the History of Ethics 9: Natural Law 10: The Misfortune of Virtue 11: Voluntarism and the Foundations of Ethics 12: Hume and the Religious Significance of Moral Rationalism Part V: On Kant 13: Why Study Kant's Groundwork? 14: Autonomy, Obligation and Virtue 15: Kant and Stoic Ethics 16: Towards Enlightenment 17: Kant on Unsocial Sociability Part VI: Moral Psychology 18: The Active Powers Part VII: Afterword 19: Sixty Years of Philosophy in a Life J. B. Schneewind: Bibliography ...
