Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant: Volume 1: An Anthology - Softcover

9780521358750: Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant: Volume 1: An Anthology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521358752 ISBN 13: 9780521358750

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries provide the tools to teach the history of modern moral philosophy. What makes this selection distinctive is that it covers not only the familiar figures - Hobbes, Hume, Butler, Bentham and Kant - but also the important but generally ignored writers: new translations of Nicole, Wolff, Crusius and d'Holbach; as well as substantial excerpts from natural law theorists such as Suarez, Grotius and Pufendorf; from rationalists such as Malebranche, Cudworth, Spinoza and Leibniz; from Epicurean writers such as Gassendi; and from their 'moral sense' and other critics: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Price. In all, thirty-two authors are represented. The selections are preceded by a substantial contextual introduction, while each individual selection has a separate introduction, annotation and bibliography, and has been chosen for its centrality to a given philosopher's writings. The anthology can be used as an introductory survey or for more intensive graduate work as well. It can also be used as supplemental reading for courses on modern European intellectual history, the history of modern political thought, and the history of religious thought.

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Review:

"This collection is so significant a contribution to our understanding of the development of moral thought and the relation of religion and morality, so nearly perfect an historical anthology, that one hesitates to mention any reservations....this anthology belongs in every university library, " Thomas Kennedy, Religious Studies Review

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