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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Model of Love
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Cambridge University Press Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue
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Cambridge University Press Sameness and Substance Renewed
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Cambridge University Press Normative Jurisprudence An Introduction Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
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Cambridge University Press Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Upheavals of Thought
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Cambridge University Press Space Time and Man
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Natural Philosophy The Case of Philip Melanchthon 34 Ideas in Context Series Number 34
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Cambridge University Press Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism
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Cambridge University Press The Reception of Aristotles Ethics
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Cambridge University Press The Autonomy of Mathematical Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press Language in the Brain
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Cambridge University Press The Three Cultures Natural Sciences Social Sciences and the Humanities in the 21st Century
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Cambridge University Press Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics
Book SynopsisMichael Pakaluk offers a thorough and lucid examination of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, uncovering its motivations and basic views while paying careful attention to its arguments. His book will be invaluable for all student readers encountering one of the most important and influential works of Western philosophy.Table of Contents1. Reading Aristotle's 'Ethics'; 2. An outline of the goal of human life; 3. Character-related virtue; 4. Actions as signs of character; 5. Some particular character-related virtues; 6. Justice as a particular character-related virtue; 7. Thinking-related virtue; 8. Arkrasia, or failure of self-control; 9. Friendship; 10. Pleasure; 11. Happiness in outline.
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Cambridge University Press Self Love and Christian Ethics 23 New Studies in Christian Ethics Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press Realism and Christian Faith
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Cambridge University Press Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
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Cambridge University Press Emotions An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology
Book SynopsisLife, on a day to day basis, is a sequence of emotional states: hope, disappointment, irritation, anger, affection, envy, pride, embarrassment, joy, sadness and many more. We know intuitively that these states express deep things about our character and our view of the world. But what are emotions and why are they so important to us? In one of the most extensive investigations of the emotions ever published, Robert Roberts develops a novel conception of what emotions are and then applies it to a large range of types of emotion and related phenomena. In so doing he lays the foundations for a deeper understanding of our evaluative judgments, our actions, our personal relationships and our fundamental well-being. Aimed principally at philosophers and psychologists, this book will certainly be accessible to readers in other disciplines such as religion and anthropology.Trade Review'It is clearly and engagingly written, uses vivid examples throughout, and covers an impressively wide range of emotions. Roberts discusses the philosophical and neurological literature on emotion, as well as many literary case studies. He makes a strong case for the importance of emotions to ethics. In fact, anyone who believes otherwise will have a hard time responding to Roberts because of the enormous number of examples and arguments presented in this book.' Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma'… a strong and sustained piece of work that presents a truly original and thought-provoking analysis of emotions …' Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne'The clarity, subtlety, breadth, and depth of Roberts's book are richly rewarding and make it essential reading. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a milestone in the development of the philosophical analysis of emotions.' Journal of Moral PhilosophyTable of Contents1. Studying emotions; 2. The nature of emotions; 3. The variety of emotions; 4. The play of emotional feelings.
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Cambridge University Press A Political Theology of Nature 9 Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Aquinas Summa Theologiae Questions on God Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisThomas Aquinas (1224/6â1274) was one of the greatest of the medieval philosophers. His Summa Theologiae is his most important contribution to Christian theology, and one of the main sources for his philosophy. This volume offers most of the Summa's first 26 questions, including all of those on the existence and nature of God. Based on the 1960 Blackfriars translation, this version has been extensively revised by Brian Davies and also includes an introduction by Brian Leftow which places the questions in their philosophical and historical context. The result is an accessible and up-to-date edition of Aquinas' thoughts on the nature and existence of God, both of which have continuing relevance for the philosophy of religion and Christian theology.Table of Contents1. The nature and scope of sacred doctrine; 2. Does God exist?; 3. God's simplicity; 4. God's perfection; 5. The general notion of good; 6. God's goodness; 7. God's limitlessness; 8. God's existence in things; 9. God's unchangeableness; 10. God's eternity; 11. God's oneness; 12. How God's creatures know Him; 13. Talking about God; 14. God's knowledge; 15. On God's ideas; 18. On God's life; 19. God's will and providence; 20. Love in God; 21. God's justice and mercy; 22. God's providence; 25. God's power; 26. God's beatitude.
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Cambridge University Press Disowning Knowledge
Book SynopsisReissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Trade Review'These beautiful essays on Shakespeare, lucid, complicated, and deeply moving, are unique … for the conversation they forge between philosophy and literature. Unified by the twin themes of knowledge and acknowledgment, and thus by the relationship between scientific understanding and human understanding, the volume brings together some of the most remarkable literary essays in modern scholarship. Tp his now famous readings of six plays of Shakespeare, Cavell now adds a stunning … piece on Macbeth, containing complicated meditations about gender, sexuality and humanity.' Martha Nussbaum, author of Upheavals of Thought'Disowning Knowledge makes wonderfully clear why Stanley Cavell's career-long struggle with the philosophical problem of skepticism converges so forcefully with his preoccupation with Shakespearean theater. Admirers of Cavell's remarkable 1969 essay on King Lear and of his published readings of Othello and Coriolanus will be delighted to find them together in one volume and complemented by equally challenging commentaries on Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale. Shakespeareans who do not already know Cavell's previous work should prepare themselves for a demanding encounter with the most distinctive and powerful voice in contemporary Shakespeare criticism.' Professor Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign'Stanley Cavell's essays on Shakespeare - deep, intellectually tenacious, and humane meditations on the nature of artistic genius - are thrilling and essential reading. They illuminate the relation between skepticism and theater, transform the language of literary criticism, and heighten the ethical significance of aesthetic response.' Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; Preface to the updated edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; 3. Othello and the stake of the other; 4. Coriolanus and interpretation of politics; 5. Hamlet's burden of proof; 6. Recounting gains, showing losses: reading The Winter's Tale; 7. Macbeth appalled; Index of names and titles.
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Cambridge University Press A Philosophy of Cinematic Art
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Cambridge University Press The Ethics of Inheritable Genetic Modification
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Cambridge University Press Sextus Empiricus
Book SynopsisSextus Empiricus' Against the Logicians is a prime example of the ancient Greek sceptical method at work. This volume presents it in a new and accurate translation together with a detailed introduction.Trade Review"...this is an excellent work. It is a valuable new tool for the study both of Sextan Pyrrhonism and of the logical and epistemological doctrines expounded in AD I-II, and will no doubt become the standard English translation of these books in the years to come. Bett has proved, once again, that he is one of the leading specialists in Pyrrhonian skepticism." --Diego E. Machuca, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina), Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsBook I; Book II.
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Cambridge University Press THE PUZZLE OF MODERN ECONOMICS SCIENCE OR IDEOLOGY BY BACKHOUSE ROGER EAUTHORPaperback
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Cambridge University Press Human Identity and Bioethics
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Cambridge University Press Worship as Meaning A Liturgical Theology for Late Modernity 10 Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Structure Agency Internal Conversat
Book SynopsisThe central problem of social theory is 'structure and agency'. How do the objective features of society influence human agents? Determinism is not the answer, nor is conditioning as currently conceptualised. It accentuates the way structure and culture shape the social context in which individuals operate, but it neglects our personal capacity to define what we care about most and to establish a modus vivendi expressive of our concerns. Through inner dialogue, 'the internal conversation', individuals reflect upon their social situation in the light of current concerns and projects. On the basis of a series of unique, in-depth interviews, Archer identifies three distinctive forms of internal conversation. These govern agents' responses to social conditioning, their individual patterns of social mobility and whether or not they contribute to social stability or change. Thus the internal conversation is seen as being the missing link between society and the individual, structure and agenTrade Review'… a richly rewarding book … Archer has given us, again, a good number of ideas to think with and about.' Journal of Critical RealismTable of ContentsIntroduction: how does structure influence agency?; Part I. Solitude and Society: 1. The private life of the social subject; 2. From introspection to internal conversation: an unfinished journey in three stages; 3. Reclaiming the internal conversation; 4. The process of mediation between structure and agency; Part II. Modes of Reflexivity and Stances Towards Society: 5. Communicative reflexives; 6. Autonomous reflexives; 7. Meta-reflexives; 8. Fractured reflexives; Conclusion: personal powers and social powers.
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Cambridge University Press The Creativity of God World Eucharist Reason 12 Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Lockes Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Cambridge University Press Phenomenal Consciousness
Book SynopsisArgues that the subjective feel of our experience is fully explicable in naturalistic (scientifically acceptable) terms, and develops and defends a novel account in terms of higher-order thought. Essential reading for all those in philosophy and the cognitive sciences who are interested in the problem of consciousness.Trade Review'Carruthers' book is a marvellous and wide-ranging critical introduction to the problem of conciousness from a representational theory point of view … Carruthers also develops and defends a highly original version of the representational theory of consciousness which boasts a remarkable degree of depth and precision … an intriguing and original addition to the growing range of representational theories of consciousness, which is the most exciting area in consciousness studies at the moment … Carruthers' book is now an essential part of the literature in this area.' William Seager, University of Toronto'Carruthers' new book is a welcome addition to the extensive literature on phenomenal consciousness … Carruthers has written a rich and rewarding book … the level of argumentation is consistently high, and a wide range of empirical evidence is brought to bear … no one working in the philosophy of mind and/or psychology can afford to ignore it.' The Philosophical Quarterly' … compulsory reading for anyone interested in the comtemporary philosophical and scientific debate over the nature of phenomenal consciousness.' An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on ConsciousnessTable of Contents1. Assumptions, distinctions, and a map; 2. Perspectival, subjective, and worldly facts; 3. Explanatory gaps and qualia; 4. Naturalisation and narrow content; 5. First-order representationalism; 6. Against first-order representationalism; 7. Higher-order representationalism: a first defence; 8. Dispositionalist higher-order thought theory (1): function; 9. Dispositionalist higher-order thought theory (2): feel; 10. Phenomenal consciousness and language; 11. Fragmentary consciousness and the Cartesian theatre.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Hobbess Leviathan Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaTrade Review'These papers herald a new era in Hobbesian studies.' Contemporary Review'This collection, bringing together many distinguished historians of ideas from around the globe, will no doubt be the first port of call for those students and scholars new to Hobbes' greatest work.' British Journal for the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction Patricia Springborg; 1. Of Man; 1.1 Hobbes's visual strategy Horst Bredekamp; 1.2 The beast of myth: Medusa, Dionysus and the riddle of Hobbes's sovereign monster John Tralau; 1.3 Sense and nonsense about sense: Hobbes and the Aristotelians on sense perception and imagination Cees Leijenhorst; 1.4 Hobbes on the natural condition of mankind Kinch Hoekstra; 1.5 Hobbes's moral philosophy Tom Sorrell; 2. Of Commonwealth; 2.1. Hobbes on persons, authors, and representatives Quentin Skinner; 2.2 Hobbes on glory and civil strife Gabriella Slomp; 2.3 Hobbes and the philosophical origins of liberalism Lucien Jaume; 2.4 The basis for the right to punish in Hobbes's Leviathan Dieter Huning; 3. Of a Christian Commonwealth; 3.1 Hobbes's covenant theology and its political implications Franck Lessay; 3.2 Omnipotence, necessity, and sovereignty: Hobbes and the absolute powers of God and king Luc Foisneau; 3.3 Hobbes on salvation Roberto Farneti; 3.4 Hobbes and the cause of religious toleration Edwin Curley; 4. Of the Kingdom of Darkness; 4.1 Hobbes's critique of the doctrine of essences and its sources Gianni Paganini; 4.2 Leviathan and its Anglican context Johann Somerville; 4.3 The Bible and Protestantism in Leviathan A. P. Martinich; 4.4 The 1668 appendix and Hobbes's theological project George Wright; 5. Hobbes's Reception; 5.1 Leviathan and Hobbes's contemporaries G. A. J. Rogers; 5.2 The reception of Hobbes's Leviathan Jonathan Parkin; 5.3 Hobbes, Clarendon, and Leviathan Perez Zagorin; 5.4 Silencing Thomas Hobbes: the Presbyterians and Leviathan Jeffrey R. Collins.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Platos Republic Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers of the Republic who require guidance, to more experienced readers who wish to explore contemporary currents in the work's interpretation. The three initial chapters address aspects of the work as a whole. They are followed by essays that match closely the sequence in which topics are presented in the ten books of the Republic. Since the Republic returns frequently to the same topics by different routes, so do the authors of this volume, who provide the readers with divergent yet complementary perspectives by which to appreciate the Republic's principal concerns.Trade Review'Eminently suited to guide students, whether graduates or advanced undergraduates, through this intimidating text while at the same time introducing them to significant contemporary disputes in its interpretation. The Companions chapters … are to be congratulated for resisting the tendency to mystification.' Edward Butler, Metapsychology'A book that all admirers of Ethics with Aristotle will read with great pleasure.' Revue philsophique de LouvainTable of Contents1. The protreptic rhetoric of the Republic Harvey Yunis; 2. The place of the Republic in Plato's political thought Christopher Rowe; 3. Rewriting the poets in Plato's characters David O'Connor; 4. Wise guys and smart alecks in Republic 1 and 2 Roslyn Weiss; 5. Justice and virtue: the Republic's inquiry into proper difference Aryeh Kosman; 6. The noble lie Malcolm Schofield; 7. The three-part soul G. R. F. Ferrari; 8. Eros in the Republic Paul Ludwig; 9. The utopian character of Plato's ideal city Donald Morrison; 10. Philosophy, the forms and the art of ruling David Sedley; 11. Sun and line: the role of the good Nicholas Denyer; 12. Beginning the 'longer way' Mitchell Miller; 13. The city-soul analogy Norbert Blossner; 14. The unhappy tyrant and the craft of inner rule Richard D. Parry; 15. What is imitative poetry and why is it bad? Jessica Moss; 16. The life-and-death journey of the soul: interpreting the myth of Er Stephen Halliwell.
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings
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Cambridge University Press The History of Linguistics in Europe
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Cambridge University Press History of Linguistics in Europe From Plato to 1600 Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Weber Cambridge Companions
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Cambridge University Press Kant and the Claims of Taste
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Cambridge University Press Equality Responsibility and the Law
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Cambridge University Press The Country of Lost Children An Australian Anxiety
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Cambridge University Press Times Arrows Today
Book SynopsisWhile experience tells us that time flows from the past to the present and into the future, a number of philosophical and physical objections exist to this commonsense view of dynamic time. In this book, researchers from both physics and philosophy attempt to answer these issues in an interesting, yet rigorous way.Trade Review'This collection of papers is an exemplary case of the beneficial effects of the interaction of philosophers and scientists in a non-polistical setting. It is also the state of the art on the problem of time's arrow … Anyone working on the problem of the direction of time or the related issues discussed in the various chapters would be well advised to delve into it.' John Collier, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science'I heartily recommend this collection to anyone, philosopher or scientist interested in the direction of time. Many of the papers make significant contributions to the field, and I found almost all of them quite interesting, I am confident this book will emerge as a standard text in the philosophy of time.' Craig Callender, Canadian Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Cosmology and Time's Arrow: 1. Time, gravity, and quantum mechanics W. Unruh; 2. Cosmology, time's arrow, and that old double standard H. Price; Part II. Quantum Theory and Time's Arrow: 3. Time's arrow and the quantum measurement problem A. Leggett; 4. Time, decoherence, and 'reversible' measurements P. Stamp; 5. Time flows, non-locality, and measurement in quantum mechanics S. McCall; 6. Stochastically branching spacetime topology R. Douglas; Part III. Thermodynamics and Time's Arrow: 7. The elusive object of desire: in pursuit of the kinetic equations and the second law L. Sklar; 8. Time in experience and in theoretical description of the world L. Sklar; 9. When and why does entropy increase? M. Barrett and E. Sober; Part IV. Time Travel and Time's Arrow: 10. Closed causal chains P Horwich; 11. Recent work on time travel J. Earman.
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Cambridge University Press The Ascetic Self
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Cambridge University Press The Matter of Chance
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Cambridge University Press Personal Identity
Personal Identity by Ellen Frankel Paul | 9780521617673
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion provides a broad overview of the topics which are at the forefront of discussion in contemporary philosophy of religion. Prominent views and arguments from both historical and contemporary authors are discussed and analyzed. The book treats all of the central topics in the field, including the coherence of the divine attributes, theistic and atheistic arguments, faith and reason, religion and ethics, miracles, human freedom and divine providence, science and religion, and immortality. In addition it addresses topics of significant importance that similar books often ignore, including the argument for atheism from hiddenness, the coherence of the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, and the relationship between religion and politics. It will be a valuable accompaniment to undergraduate and introductory graduate-level courses.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. The Nature of God: 1. Attributes of God: independence, goodness, and power; 2. Attributes of God: eternity, knowledge, and providence; 3. God incarnate and triune; Part II. The Rationality of Religious Belief: 4. Faith and rationality; 5. Theistic arguments; 6. Anti-theistic arguments; Part III. Science, Morality, and Immorality: 7. Religion and science; 8. Religion, morality, and politics; 9. Mind, body, and immortality.
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle Kant and the Stoics
Book SynopsisThis major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so, it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics.Trade Review'Importantly, old stereotypes, or conventional wisdom, about the differences between ancient and modern ethics, especially between Aristotle and Kant, are challenged, exposing possible unities (and historical influences) that tradition has overlooked. However, superficial similarities are also probed and sometimes shown to mask deep remaining differences. The papers call attention to, as well as represent, a quite remarkable contemporary revival of important philosophical/scholarly treatment of the history of ethics, and the authors are, without exception, major players in this movement.' Thomas E. Hill, Jr, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillTable of ContentsPart I. Deliberation and Moral Development: 1. Deliberation and moral development in Aristotle's ethics John McDowell; 2. Making room for character Barbara Herman; Part II. Eudaimonism: 3. Kant's criticisms of Eudaimonism T. H. Irwin; 4. Happiness and the highest good in Aristotle and Kant Stephen Engstrom; Part III. Self-Love and Self-Worth: 5. Self-love, self-benevolence, and self-conceit Allen W. Wood; 6. Self-love and authoritative virtue: Prolegomenon to a Kantian reading of Eudemian Ethics VIII 3 Jennifer Whiting; Part IV. Practical Reason and Moral Psychology: 7. From duty and for the sake of the noble: Kant and Aristotle on morally good action Christine M. Korsgaard; 8. Aristotle and Kant on morality and practical reasoning Julia Annas; Part V. Stoicism: 9. Eudaimonism, the appeal to nature, and 'Moral Duty' in Stoicism John M. Cooper; 10. Kant and Stoic ethics J. B. Schneewind.
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