Lectures on Ethics, 1946

This volume presents a series of lectures given by P. F. Strawson in the autumn term of 1946. The lectures contain the germ of Strawson's developed thought on freedom, moral attitudes, and ethical ideals, with an unusual level of attention being paid to contemporary psychological research.

List of contents

• Foreword


• Lectures on Ethics


• Elementary Ethics - Lecture Scheme


• Lecture 1. The Disputes of Moral Philosophers


• Lecture 2


• Lecture 3


• Lecture 4


• Lecture 5


• Lecture 6. The Dualism of Motive in Kant: Obligation


• Lecture 7. The Dualism in Motive: Egoistic Desires and Disinterested Desires


• Lecture 8. Moral Development: Duty, Motive and Instinct


• Lecture 9. The Genesis of Obligation: Duty and Reason


• Lecture 10. Duties and Goods and 'Rightness'


• Lecture 11. The Epistemological Question


• Lecture 12. The Analysis of Moral Judgements


• Lecture 13. The Problem of Freedom

About the author

P. F. Strawson (1919-2006) was a professor at Oxford from 1968 to 1987. Prior to that, he taught at University of Wales, Bangor in the academic year 1946-47. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1960, became a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts of Sciences in 1971, and was an Honorary Fellow of St John's, University, and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford. Strawson was knighted in 1977 for his outstanding contribution to philosophy. His influential works include Individuals (1959), The Bounds of Sense (1966), and Freedom and Resentment (1974).

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.

Summary

This volume presents a series of lectures given by P. F. Strawson in the autumn term of 1946. The lectures contain the germ of Strawson's developed thought on freedom, moral attitudes, and ethical ideals, with an unusual level of attention being paid to contemporary psychological research.

Product details

• Authors: P. F. Strawson
• Assisted by: Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Jonathan (University of Texas at Austin) Dancy (Editor), Dancy Jonathan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9780198931164
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893116-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism