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Essays On The History Of Moral Philosophy
Author(s): J. Schneewind (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Publication Date: 25 Sept. 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 472 pages
- ISBN-10: 019957667X
- ISBN-13: 9780199576678
Book Description
J. B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The volume ranges across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries: it includes Schneewind’s early anti-foundationalist “Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles,” the classic “The Misfortunes of Virtue,” and other early essays on Kant’s relation to pre-Kantian moral philosophy; also a long piece on “The Active Powers,” and Schneewind’s own interpretation of Kant’s moral philosophy. These writings provide excellent introductions to Schneewind’s two long books, and supplement them in important ways.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is a fine collection of essays by one of our profession’s most influential and learned historians of ethics. It is an important resource for those researching and teaching moral philosophy and its history. ― Anthony Skelton, Mind
His two long books and his essays are unrivalled in their combination of narrative skill, historical learning, and philosophical intelligence. Both the philosopher and the intellectual historian can learn from these books and essays. ―
T. H. Irwin, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsAbout the Author
J. B. Schneewind is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied at Cornell and Princeton and has taught at Chicago, Yale, Princeton, Hunter, Stanford, Leicester, Halle, Helsinki, and Johns Hopkins. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been Chair of the Board of the Americal Philosopical Association and was awarded a Quinn Prize for Distinguished Service.
