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Being and Freedom - On Late Modern Ethics in Europe (Hardcover, 1)
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Being and Freedom - On Late Modern Ethics in Europe (Hardcover, 1)
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Being and Freedom is a panoramic account of ethics in Europe from
the French Revolution to the end of the nineteenth century. In this
period the influence of ethics ran far beyond philosophy,
eventually dominating politics and religion in the West.
Developments came from France, Germany, and Britain: this is the
first book to treat them together as a Europe-wide phenomenon,
paying attention to the context of events and ideas from which they
emerged. Skorupski begins by examining the philosophical conflict
at the heart of the French revolution, between the individualism of
the Enlightenment and two very different forms of holistic ethics:
the old regime's ethic of service and the radical-democracy of the
Rousseauian left. Responses analysing freedom and modern social
relations came from a series of French liberal thinkers. In Germany
the reaction was to two revolutions seen as inaugurating modernity:
the political revolution in France and the philosophical revolution
of Kant. Here, the fate of religion was critical, and with it the
metaphysics of being and freedom. Skorupski traces this story from
Kant to Hegel's idealist version of ethical holism. In Britain,
Enlightenment naturalism remained the prevailing framework. It took
different forms: 'common sense' and the theory of the sentiments in
Scotland, utilitarianism in England. From all these elements came a
synthesis of European themes by John Stuart Mill, comparable in
range but opposed to that of Hegel. The final chapter is an
assessment of this period's ethical ideas. They remain the core of
late modern ethics and the contested ground on which ethical
disagreements take place today.
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