Moral Philosophy On The Threshold Of Modernity
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Author | : Jill Kraye |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2005-03-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781402030000 |
This volume investigates the paradigm changes which occurred in ethics during the early modern era (1350-1600). While many general claims have been made regarding the nature of moral philosophy in the period of transition from medieval to modern thought, the rich variety of extant texts has seldom been studied and discussed in detail. The present collection attempts to do this. It provides new research on ethics in the context of Late Scholasticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation. It traces the fate of Aristotelianism and of Stoicism, explores specific topics such as probabilism and casuistry, and highlights the connections between Protestant theology and early modern ethics. The book also examines how the origins of human rights, as well as different views of moral agency, the will and the emotions, came into focus on the eve of modernity. Target audience: students of medieval, Renaissance and Reformation history; students of the history of philosophy, ethics and theology; those interested in humanism, human rights and the history of law.
Author | : Ross Poole |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134959664 |
Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of morality at work in contemporary society, and casts a strikingly fresh light on such fundamental problems as the place of reason in ethics, moral objectivity and the distinction between duty and virtue. The book provides a critical account of the moral theories of a number of major philosophers, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas, Rawls, Gewirth and MacIntyre. It also presents a systematic critique of three of the most significant responses to modernity: liberalism, nationalism and nihilism. It takes seriously the suggestion that men and women are subject to different conceptions of morality, and places the issue of gender at the centre of moral philosophy. Poole has written a valuable addition to the Ideas series.
Author | : Jill Kraye |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2006-03-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1402030010 |
Over the past twenty years the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era has received increasing attention from experts in the history of philosophy. In part, this new interest arises from claims, made in literature aimed at a less specialist readership, that this transition was responsible for the subsequent philosophical and theological problems of the Enlightenment. Philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre and theologians like John Milbank display a certain nostalgia for the medieval synthesis of Thomas Aquinas and, consequently, evaluate the period from 1300 to 1700 in rather negative terms. Other historians of philosophy writing for the general public, such as Charles Taylor, take a more positive view of the Reformation but nevertheless conclude that modernity has been shaped by 1 conflicts which stem from early modern times. Ethics and moral thought occupy a central place in these theories. It is assumed that we have lost something – the concept of virtue, for instance, or the source of common morality. Yet those who put forward such notions do not treat the history of ethics in detail. From the historian’s perspective, their far-reaching theoretical assumptions are based on a quite small body of textual evidence. In reality, there was a rich variety of approaches to moral thinking and ethical theories during the period from 1400 to 1600.
Author | : Warner Fite |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anthony O'Hear |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2004-11-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521603269 |
Collection of original essays by leading researchers on current approaches to moral philosophy.
Author | : Henry Calderwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : W L 1850-1928 Courtney |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2015-12-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781347437711 |
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Author | : Stephen Darwall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2023-05-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1009380613 |
In this magisterial study, one of our leading moral philosophers refutes the charge (originally made by Elizabeth Anscombe) that modern ethics is incoherent because it essentially depends on theological and religious assumptions that it cannot acknowledge. Stephen Darwall's panoramic picture starts with the seventeenth-century thinker Grotius and tells the story continuously down to the time of Kant, exploring what was in fact a completely new way of doing ethics based on secular ideas of human psychology and universal accountability. He shows that thinkers from Grotius to Kant are profoundly united by this modern approach, and that it helped them to create a theory of natural human rights that remains of great political relevance today. He further shows that this new way of thinking provides conceptual resources that are far from exhausted, and that moral philosophy in this idiom still has a vibrant future.
Author | : Charles Larmore |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1996-03-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521497725 |
Arguing against recent attempts to return to the virtue-centered perspective of ancient Greek ethics, these essays explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity by studying the differences between ancient and modern ethics.
Author | : Joseph Haven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |