Moral philosophy from Montaigne to Kant
This anthology contains excerpts from some thirty-two important seventeenth- and eighteenth-century moral philosophers. Including a substantial introduction and extensive bibliographies, the anthology facilitates the study and teaching of early modern moral philosophy in its crucial formative period.
Print Book, English, 2003
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003
xxv, 666 p
9780521802598, 9780521003049, 0521802598, 0521003040
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Introduction; Prolegomena: some questions raised: 1. Michel de Montaigne; Part I. Reworking Natural Law: 2. Francisco Suarez; 3. Hugo Grotius; 4. Thomas Hobbes; 5. Richard Cumberland; 6. Samuel Pufendorf; 7. John Locke; Part II. Intellect and Morality: 8. Guillaume du Vair; 9. Rene Descartes; 10. Benedict de Spinoza; 11. Nicholas Malebranche; 12. Ralph Cudworth; 13. Samuel Clarke; 14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; 15. Christian Wolff; Part III. Epicureans and Egoists: 16. Pierre Gassendi; 17. Pierre Nicole; 18. Bernard Mandeville; 19. John Gay; 20. Claude Adrien Helvetius; 21. Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach; 22. William Paley; 23. Jeremy Bentham; Part IV. Autonomy and Responsibility: 24. The Earl of Shaftesbury; 25. Francis Hutcheson; 26. Joseph Butler; 27. David Hume; 28. Christian August Crusius; 29. Richard Price; 30. Jean-Jacques Rousseau; 31. Thomas Reid; 32. Immanuel Kant.