Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

By J.B. Schneewind

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199563012
• ISBN13: 9780199563012
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"