(P/B) LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

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The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students--and a regeneration of moral philosophy. It invites readers to learn from the most noted exemplars of modern moral philosophy with the inspired guidance of one of contemporary philosophy’s most noteworthy practitioners and teachers. Central to Rawls’s approach is the idea that respectful attention to the great texts of our tradition can lead to a fruitful exchange of ideas across the centuries. In this spirit, his book engages thinkers such as Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and Hegel as they struggle in brilliant and instructive ways to define the role of a moral conception in human life. The lectures delineate four basic types of moral reasoning: perfectionism, utilitarianism, intuitionism, and--the ultimate focus of Rawls’s course--Kantian constructivism. Comprising a superb course on the history of moral philosophy, they also afford unique insight into how John Rawls has transformed our view of this history. (from the publisher)

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EDITOR'S FOREWORD
A NOTE ON THE TEXTS
INTRODUCTION: MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY, 1600-1800
HUME:
I. MORALITY PSYCHOLOGIZED AND THE PASSIONS
II. RATIONAL DELIBERATION AND THE ROLE OF REASON
III. JUSTICE AS AN ARTIFICIAL VIRTUE
IV. THE CRITIQUE OF RATIONAL INTUITIONISM
V. THE JUDICIOUS SPECTATOR
LEIBNIZ:
I. HIS METAPHYSICAL PERFECTIONISM
II. SPIRITS AS ACTIVE SUBSTANCES: THEIR FREEDOM
KANT:
I. GROUNDWORK: PREFACE AND PART I
II. THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: THE FIRST FORMULATION
III. THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: THE SECOND FORMULATION
IV. THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: THE THIRD FORMULATION
V. THE PRIORITY OF RIGHT AND THE OBJECT OF THE MORAL LAW
VI. MORAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
VII. THE FACT OF REASON
VIII. THE MORAL LAW AS THE LAW OF FREEDOM
IX. THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF THE RELIGION, BOOK I
X. THE UNITY OF REASON
HEGEL:
I. HIS RECHTSPHILOSOPHIE
II. ETHICAL LIFE AND LIBERALISM
APPENDIX: COURSE OUTLINE
INDEX