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The Development of Ethics, Volume 3 - From Kant to Rawls (Hardcover)
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The Development of Ethics, Volume 3 - From Kant to Rawls (Hardcover)
Series: Development of Ethics
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This book 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. The
first volume discusses ancient and mediaeval moral philosophy. The
second volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the 16th
to the 18th century. This third volume continues the story up to
Rawls's Theory of Justice. A comparison between the Kantian and the
Aristotelian outlook is one central theme of the third volume. The
chapters on Kant compare Kant both with his rationalist and
empiricist predecessors and with the Aristotelian naturalist
tradition. Reactions to Kant are traced through Hegel,
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. Utilitarian and idealist
approaches to Kantian and Aristotelian views are traced through
Sidgwick, Bradley, and Green. Mill and Sidgwick provide a link
between 18th-century rationalism and sentimentalism and the
20th-century debates in the metaphysics and epistemology of
morality. These debates are explored in Moore, Ross, Stevenson,
Hare, C.I. Lewis, Heidegger, and in some more recent meta-ethical
discussion. This volume concludes with a discussion of Rawls, with
special emphasis on a comparison of his position with
utilitarianism, intuitionism, Kantianism, naturalism, and idealism.
Since this book seeks to be not only descriptive and exegetical,
but also philosophical, it discusses the comparative merits of
different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of
the difficulties might be resolved. It presents the leading moral
philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion
in which the contemporary reader can participate.
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