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Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant: An Anthology (2 volumes)

Door J.B. Schneewind

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#343218-XH22
Titel
Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant: An Anthology (2 volumes)
Auteur
Schneewind, J.B. (editor)
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1995
ISBN10
0521358752
ISBN13
9780521358750
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
2 not-uniform paperbacks, 8vo. ISBN 9780521358750 and ISBN 9780521358767.
Samenvatting

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries provide the tools to teach the history of modern moral philosophy. What makes this selection distinctive is that it covers not only the familiar figures - Hobbes, Hume, Butler, Bentham and Kant - but also the important but generally ignored writers: new translations of Nicole, Wolff, Crusius and d'Holbach; as well as substantial excerpts from natural law theorists such as Suarez, Grotius and Pufendorf; from rationalists such as Malebranche, Cudworth, Spinoza and Leibniz; from Epicurean writers such as Gassendi; and from their 'moral sense' and other critics: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Price. In all, thirty-two authors are represented. The selections are preceded by a substantial contextual introduction, while each individual selection has a separa
... (Lees verder)te introduction, annotation and bibliography, and has been chosen for its centrality to a given philosopher's writings. The anthology can be used as an introductory survey or for more intensive graduate work as well. It can also be used as supplemental reading for courses on modern European intellectual history, the history of modern political thought, and the history of religious thought.
Pagina's
664
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 25,00

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