The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy explained

The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
Author:Sacha Golob and Jens Timmermann (editors)
Language:English
Subject:Moral philosophy
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Pub Date:2017
Media Type:Print (hardcover)
Pages:751
Isbn:978-1-107-03305-4

The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy is a 2017 book edited by Sacha Golob and Jens Timmermann in which the authors provide an account of the history of moral philosophy in the Western tradition.[1] [2]

Reception

The book was reviewed by T. H. Irwin and Jonathan Head (from Keele University). Irwin calls it a "valuable companion", but he mentions some flaws and shortcomings and points out that it deserves a second enlarged edition.

Essays

!!Title!Author
1Ethics before SocratesCatherine Rowett
2Socrates and SophistsAlex Long
3PlatoJames Warren
4AristotleMichael Pakaluk
5Epicureanism and HedonismVoula Tsouna
6StoicismBrad Inwood
7Ancient SkepticismKatja Maria Vogt
8Neo-PlatonismAlexandrine Schniewind
9Early Christian EthicsSarah Byers
10Boethius, Abelard and AnselmJohn Marenbon
11Medieval Jewish EthicsTamar Rudavsky
12Moral Philosophy in the Medieval Islamicate WorldAnna Akasoy
13“Christian Aristotelianism”? Albert the Great and Thomas AquinasTobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller
14Duns Scotus and William of OckhamTobias Hoffmann
15HumanismSabrina Ebbersmeyer
16Descartes’s Provisional MoralityLisa Shapiro
17HobbesS.A. Lloyd
18The Cambridge PlatonistsSarah Hutton
19BayleJean-Luc Solère
20LeibnizGregory Brown
21SpinozaSteven Nadler
22PascalDesmond M. Clarke
23Locke and ButlerStephen Darwall
24Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and the Moral SenseJames A. Harris
25HumePaul Guyer
26Smith and BenthamCraig Smith
27RousseauSusan Meld Shell
28Rationalism and PerfectionismStefano Bacin
29KantJens Timmermann
30FichteAllen Wood
31HegelDudley Knowles
32MillChristopher Macleod
33SchopenhauerAlistair Welchman
34KierkegaardR. Zachary Manis
35American TranscendentalismRussell B. Goodman
36NietzscheLawrence Hatab
37MarxismJeffrey Reiman
38SidgwickKatarzyna de Lazari-Radek
39PragmatismCheryl Misak
40British IdealismRobert Stern
41Ethical IntuitionismPhilip Stratton-Lake
42Husserl and Phenomenological EthicsNicolas de Warren
43Ethics in Freudian and Post-Freudian PsychoanalysisEdward Harcourt
44Noncognitivism

From the Vienna Circle to the Present Day

John Eriksson
45The Frankfurt SchoolFred Rush
46HeideggerSacha Golob
47SartreSebastian Gardner
48French Ethical Philosophy since the 1960sTodd May
49Wittgenstein’s Ethics and Wittgensteinian Moral PhilosophyDavid Levy
50Anti-Theory

Anscombe, Foot and Williams

Simon Robertson
51Discourse EthicsPeter Niesen
52Decision TheoryBen Eggleston
53RawlsKatrin Flikschuh

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Notes and References

  1. Irwin . T. H. . The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy ed. by Sacha Golob and Jens Timmermann (review) . Journal of the History of Philosophy . 2020 . 58 . 2 . 415–419 . 10.1353/hph.2020.0033 . 216251688 . 1538-4586.
  2. Head . Jonathan . The Cambridge history of moral philosophy . British Journal for the History of Philosophy . 2 November 2019 . 27 . 6 . 1239–1240 . 10.1080/09608788.2019.1616159 . 190439714 . 0960-8788.