The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by Jerome B. Schneewind

The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy



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The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy Jerome B. Schneewind ebook
Publisher: CUP
ISBN: 052147938X, 9780521479387
Page: 618
Format: djvu


Apr 11, 2009 - Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy. Sep 5, 2009 - This guide will help you understand popular philosophers used in LD debate! Necessarily require religious faith, nor is its only alternative materialism: it could instead dictate precisely the kind of concern with community and historical context with which secular moral philosophers have long been concerned. Feb 7, 2002 - The ethical transfiguration of body and pain provides the historical, material foundation for modern theories of the disembodied, purely rational will central to modern moral philosophy. (1998) The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. And which follows Brandom in plotting a triumphal march towards Kantian autonomy, is Schneewind, J.B. The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy. At the beginning of The Invention of Autonomy, J.B. He elaborates this kind of “practical reason,” and claims that it is only possible if people are autonomous and exercise free choice. Articulates The categorical imperative is the central philosophical concept of the moral philosophy of Kant, and of modern deontological ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Schneewind, J. Schneewind's landmark study, The Invention of Autonomy, has shown that much can be learned by analyzing Kant's moral philosophy in the context of the history of modern moral philosophy. Sep 16, 2013 - In making this argument about the incoherence of modern moral reasoning, Gregory is greatly influenced by the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, though, unlike MacIntyre who located the moral crisis in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, . He says we should confront the lack of objective truth by examining the history of the invention of particular pieces of knowledge.

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