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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827140403321

Autore

Irwin Terence

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-383-04504-6

1-281-93085-7

9786611930851

0-19-156240-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (936 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

170.9

Soggetti

Ethics - History

Philosophy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2008.

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 discussion of such great thinkers as Suarez, Grotius, Hobbes, Hutcheson, Hume, Reid, Butler and Rousseau.