Treatise on Ethics (Hardcover)

Written seven years after publication of his "Search after Truth", Malebranche's "Treatise on Ethics" develops a detailed, "experimental" science of ethics in two parts - the ethics of virtue and the ethics of duty. Part One distinguishes six sources of motivation: sense perceptions, passions, imagination and "inner feelings" of love as-respect, as-goodwill, and as-esteem. It examines how each is to be evaluated. This is interwoven with an Aristotelian analysis of act and habit, and voluntary vs involuntary acts, and practical reasoning. This part concludes with two basic virtues - "the strength of the mind" and "the freedom of the mind". In part Two, Malebranche explores our duties to ourselves, to others, to our sovereign and to God. The translator's introduction discusses the place of Malebranche's ethics within his larger system, his borrowings and innovations and his impact on later philosophers.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees./International Archives of the History of Ideas, v.133
Release date:	December 1992
First published:	December 1992
Authors:	Nicolas Malebranche
Volume editors:	Craig Walton
Translators:	Craig Walton
Dimensions:	230mm (L)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-1763-0
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	0-7923-1763-7
Barcode:	9780792317630

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