Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

J. B. Schneewind is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied at Cornell and Princeton and has taught at Chicago, Yale, Princeton, Hunter, Stanford, Leicester, Halle, Helsinki, and Johns Hopkins. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been Chair of the Board of the Americal Philosopical Association and was awarded a Quinn Prize for Distinguished Service.

This is a fine collection of essays by one of our profession's most influential and learned historians of ethics. It is an important resource for those researching and teaching moral philosophy and its history.

• PART I: THEORY ; 1. Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles ; PART II: VICTORIAN MATTERS ; 2. First Principles and Common Sense Morality in Sidgwick's Ethics ; 3. Moral Problem and Moral Philosophy in the Victorian Period ; PART III: ON THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY ; 4. Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics ; 5. Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End? ; 6. No Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy ; 7. Teaching the History of Moral Philosophy ; PART IV: SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MORAL PHILOSOPHY ; 8. The Divine Corporation and the History of Ethics ; 9. Natural Law ; 10. The Misfortune of Virtue ; 11. Voluntarism and the Foundations of Ethics ; 12. Hume and the Religious Significance of Moral Rationalism ; PART V: ON KANT ; 13. Why Study Kant's Groundwork? ; 14. Autonomy, Obligation and Virtue ; 15. Kant and Stoic Ethics ; 16. Towards Enlightenment ; 17. Kant on Unsocial Sociability ; PART VI: MORAL PSYCHOLOGY ; 18. The Active Powers ; PART VII: AFTERWORD ; 19. Sixty Years of Philosophy in a Life ; J. B. Schneewind: Bibliography