The development of ethics [[electronic resource] ] : a historical and critical study . Volume 2 From Suarez to Rousseau / / Terence Irwin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454298603321
• Autore: Irwin Terence
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-93085-7; 9786611930851; 0-19-156240-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (936 p.)
• Disciplina: 170.9
• Soggetti: Ethics - History; Philosophy - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; 30. Suarez: Law and Obligation; 31. Suarez: Naturalism; 32. Natural Law and 'Modern' Moral Philosophy; 33. Grotius; 34. Hobbes: Motives and Reasons; 35. Hobbes: From Human Nature to Morality; 36. Hobbes: Morality; 37. Spinoza; 38. The 'British Moralists'; 39. Cumberland and Maxwell; 40. Cudworth; 41. Locke and Natural Law; 42. Pufendorf; 43. Leibniz: Naturalism and Eudaemonism; 44. Pufendorf and Natural Law; 45. Shaftesbury; 46. Clarke; 47. Hutcheson: For and Against Moral Realism; 48. Hutcheson: For and Against Utilitarianism; 49. Balguy: A Defence of Rationalism; 50. Balguy and Clarke: Morality and Natural Theology51. Butler: Nature; 52. Butler: Superior Principles; 53. Butler: Naturalism and Morality; 54. Butler: Implications of Naturalism; 55. Hume: Nature; 56. Hume: Passion and Reason; 57. Hume: Errors of Objectivism; 58. Hume: The Moral Sense; 59. Hume: The Virtues; 60. Smith; 61. Price; 62. Reid: Action and Will; 63. Reid: Knowledge and Morality; 64. Voluntarism, Egoism, and Utilitarianism; 65. Rousseau; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the second of three volumes which together comprise a selective historical and critical study of the development of moral philosophy. This volume covers ethics from the 16th to the 18th century, and ; features illuminating discussion of such great thinkers as Suarez, Grotius, Hobbes, Hutcheson, Hume, Reid, Butler, and Rousseau. - ;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, includ