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The Development of Ethics, Volume 3
From Kant to Rawls
Terence Irwin
1,056 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-957178-9
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Hardback
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10 September 2009
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- Not just history but philosophy, as Irwin assesses the value of the ideas to us today
- This volume covers the last two centuries, including some of the most widely read of all moral thinkers
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.Readership: Scholars and students of moral philosophy;
anyone with an interest in the history of ethics
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Terence Irwin, University of Oxford
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66: Kant: Practical Laws
67: Kant: From Practical Laws to Morality
68: Kant: Some objections and replies
69: Kant: Freedom
70: Kant: From Freedom to Morality
71: Kant: Morality and the good
72: Kant: Meta-ethical questions
73: Hegel: History and Theory
74: Hegel: Morality and beyond
75: Marx and Idealist Moral Theory
76: Schopenhauer
77: Kierkegaard
78: Nietzsche
79: Mill: Earlier Utilitarianism and its Critics
80: Mill: A revised version of utilitarianism
81: Sidgwick: Methods and Sources
82: Sidgwick: The Examination of Methods
83: Sidgwick's Axioms of Morality
84: Bradley
85: Green
86: Moore
87: Ross
88: Logical Empiricism and Emotivism
89: Lewis
90: Hare: A defence of non-cognitivism
91: Existentialism
92: Revivals of Non-Cognitivism
93: Objectivity and its Critics
94: Versions of Naturalism
95: Rawls: The just, the fair, and the right
96: Rawls: The right and the good
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