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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199693862

ISBN-139780199693863

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Number of Pages936 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameDevelopment of Ethics Vol. 2 :A Historical and Critical Studyvolume II: from Suarez to Rousseau

SubjectEthics & Moral Philosophy, General

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

AuthorTerence Irwin

Subject AreaPhilosophy

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight48.8 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"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." -- Ethics

Number of Volumes3 vols.

Dewey Decimal170.9

Table Of Content30. Suarez: law and obligation31. Suarez: naturalism32. Natural law and 'modern' moral philosophy33. Grotius34. Hobbes: Motives and Reasons35. Hobbes: from Human Nature to Morality36. Hobbes: morality37. Spinoza38. The 'British Moralists'39. Cumberland and Maxwell40. Cudworth41. Locke and Natural Law42. Pufendorf43. Leibniz: Naturalism and Eudaemonism44. Pufendorf and Natural Law45. Shaftesbury46. Clarke47. Hutcheson: For and Against Moral Realism48. Hutcheson: For and Against Utilitarianism49. Balguy: a Defence of Rationalism50. Balguy and Clarke: Morality and Natural Theology51. Butler: Nature52. Butler: Superior Principles53. Butler: Naturalism and Morality54. Butler: Implications of Naturalism55. Hume: Nature56. Hume: Passion and Reason57. Hume: Errors of Objectivism58. Hume: the moral sense59. Hume: the Virtues60. Smith61. Price62. Reid: action and will63. Reid: knowledge and morality64. Voluntarism, egoism, and utilitarianism65. Rousseau

SynopsisThis is the second of three volumes which together comprise a selective historical and critical study of the development of moral philosophy. This volume covers ethics from the 16th to the 18th century, and features illuminating discussion of such great thinkers as Suarez, Grotius, Hobbes, Hutcheson, Hume, Reid, Butler, and Rousseau., The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This volume examines ancient and medieval philosophy up to the sixteenth century; Volumes 2 and 3 will continue the story up to Rawls's Theory of Justice . The present volume begins with Socrates, the Cyrenaics and Cynics, and Plato, and then offers a fuller account of Aristotle, stressing the systematic naturalism of his position. The Stoic position is compared with the Aristotelian at some length; Epicureans and Sceptics are discussed more briefly. Chapters on early Christianity and on Augustine introduce a fuller examination of Aquinas' revision, elaboration, and defence of Aristotelian naturalism. The volume closes with an account of some criticisms of the Aristotelian outlook by Scotus, Ockham, Machiavelli, and some sixteenth-century Reformers. The emphasis of the book is not purely descriptive, narrative, or exegetical, but also philosophical. Irwin discusses the comparative merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of the difficulties might be resolved. The book tries to present the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion that is still being carried on, and tries to help the reader to participate in this discussion., The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Volume 3 will continue the story up to Rawls's Theory of Justice. The present volume begins with Suarez's interpretation of Scholastic moral philosophy, and examines seventeenth- and eighteenth- century responses to the Scholastic outlook, to see how far they constitute a distinctively different conception of moral philosophy. The treatments of natural law by Grotius, Hobbes, Cumberland, and Pufendorf are treated in some detail. Disputes about moral facts, moral judgments, and moral motivation, are traced through Cudworth, Clarke, Balguy, Hutcheson, Hume, Price, and Reid. Butler's defence of a naturalist account of morality is examined and compared with the Aristotelian and Scholastic views discussed in Volume 1. The volume ends with a survey of the persistence of voluntarism in English moral philosophy, and a brief discussion of the contrasts and connexions between Rousseau and earlier views on natural law. The emphasis of the book is not purely descriptive, narrative, or exegetical, but also philosophical. Irwin discusses the comparative merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of the difficulties might be resolved. The book tries to present the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion that is still being carried on, and tries to help the reader to participate in this discussion.

LC Classification NumberBJ71