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 essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relations to earlier thinkers.
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.
- | Author: J. B. ) Schneewind
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 03, 2009
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780199576678
- | ISBN-10: 019957667X
