Moral Motivation - A History

Zusatztext This collection of interesting essays is part of the "Oxford Philosophical Concepts" series, which aims to examine the many sources, often interdisciplinary, of contemporary philosophical concepts. In this regard, the volume is a success: it includes fresh, insightful reflections on philosophy in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Topics range from the ideas of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero to Jewish and Christian moral philosophy to Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. The interdisciplinary component is provided by three "reflections": essaysWide ranging and lucid, this rich set of readings reveals the subtle complexities of a topic central to moral life and ethical theory. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Informationen zum Autor Iakovos Vasiliou is currently Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has published a number of articles on Plato and Aristotle, and is the author of Aiming at Virtue in Plato (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has also taught at Brooklyn College, Georgia State University, and Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext Moral Motivation provides a history of moral motivation by ten eminent scholars, covering Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, the consequentialists and others. It shows the complexity of the historical treatment of moral motivation and, moreover, how intertwined discussion of moral motivation is with central aspects of ethical theory. Zusammenfassung Moral Motivation provides a history of moral motivation by ten eminent scholars, covering Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, the consequentialists and others. It shows the complexity of the historical treatment of moral motivation and, moreover, how intertwined discussion of moral motivation is with central aspects of ethical theory.

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• Authors: Iakovos Vasiliou, Iakovos (Professor of Philosophy Vasiliou
• Assisted by: Iakovos Vasiliou (Editor), Vasiliou Iakovos (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2016
• EAN: 9780199316564
• ISBN: 978-0-19-931656-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500