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Book SynopsisThe Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Volume 3 will continue the story up to Rawls''s Theory of Justice. The present volume begins with Suarez''s interpretation of Scholastic moral philosophy, and examines seventeenth- and eighteenth- century responses to the Scholastic outlook, to see how far they constitute a distinctively different conception of moral philosophy. The treatments of natural law by Grotius, Hobbe
Trade ReviewFor it truly is a great book, and I doubt that we will see a history of ethics similar in scope and ambition for some time to come. * Mark Eli Kalderon, Ethics *
Table of Contents30. Suarez: law and obligation ; 31. Suarez: naturalism ; 32. Natural law and 'modern' moral philosophy ; 33. Grotius ; 34. Hobbes: Motives and Reasons ; 35. Hobbes: from Human Nature to Morality ; 36. Hobbes: morality ; 37. Spinoza ; 38. The 'British Moralists' ; 39. Cumberland and Maxwell ; 40. Cudworth ; 41. Locke and Natural Law ; 42. Pufendorf ; 43. Leibniz: Naturalism and Eudaemonism ; 44. Pufendorf and Natural Law ; 45. Shaftesbury ; 46. Clarke ; 47. Hutcheson: For and Against Moral Realism ; 48. Hutcheson: For and Against Utilitarianism ; 49. Balguy: a Defence of Rationalism ; 50. Balguy and Clarke: Morality and Natural Theology ; 51. Butler: Nature ; 52. Butler: Superior Principles ; 53. Butler: Naturalism and Morality ; 54. Butler: Implications of Naturalism ; 55. Hume: Nature ; 56. Hume: Passion and Reason ; 57. Hume: Errors of Objectivism ; 58. Hume: the moral sense ; 59. Hume: the Virtues ; 60. Smith ; 61. Price ; 62. Reid: action and will ; 63. Reid: knowledge and morality ; 64. Voluntarism, egoism, and utilitarianism ; 65. Rousseau
