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The Development of Ethics: Volume 2 - From Suarez to Rousseau (Hardcover)
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The Development of Ethics: Volume 2 - From Suarez to Rousseau (Hardcover)
Series: Development of Ethics
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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 connections;
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 defense 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 connections 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 differentviews, 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.
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