Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-54387-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Stephen Darwall is a moral philosopher who has played a central role in contemporary debates around the foundation of ethics. This book is a sequel to his earlier volume Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant, and like its predecessor it explores the history of the period through its key ethical thinkers. Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche – the founding members of the 'continental' tradition – are masterfully examined as they are brought into vivid conversation with both analytic philosophy and the mainstream Anglophone philosophical tradition. The author addresses topics which include the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill; the anti-naturalism of Sidgwick and the British idealists; and Nietzsche's late-century critique of morality. He reveals that all these canonical thinkers – just like their precursors and successors – were wrestling with fundamental and enduring ethical problems, even when they claimed otherwise or were presenting their views in new and challenging terms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Darwall, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Post-Kantian German Idealism: 1. Fichte; 2. Hegel; Part II. Moralit Critique: 3. Marx; 4.Kierkegaard; 5. Nietzsche; Part III. Sources of Naturalistic Utilitarianism: 6. Early modern prologue; 7. Bentham; 8. Mill; Part IV. Victorian Anti-Naturalism: 9. Sidgwick; 10. The British idealists.

Über Autor(innen)

Darwall, Stephen
Stephen Darwall is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale. He is the author of The Second-Person Standpoint (2006), in fundamental ethical theory, and Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant (Cambridge, 2023), in the history of ethics.