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The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy

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The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
First edition
AuthorSacha Golob and Jens Timmermann (editors)
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMoral philosophy
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date
2017
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages751
ISBN978-1-107-03305-4

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

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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.[1]

Essays

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Title Author
1 Ethics before Socrates Catherine Rowett
2 Socrates and Sophists Alex Long
3 Plato James Warren
4 Aristotle Michael Pakaluk
5 Epicureanism and Hedonism Voula Tsouna
6 Stoicism Brad Inwood
7 Ancient Skepticism Katja Maria Vogt
8 Neo-Platonism Alexandrine Schniewind
9 Early Christian Ethics Sarah Byers
10 Boethius, Abelard and Anselm John Marenbon
11 Medieval Jewish Ethics Tamar Rudavsky
12 Moral Philosophy in the Medieval Islamicate World Anna Akasoy
13 “Christian Aristotelianism”? Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller
14 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham Tobias Hoffmann
15 Humanism Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
16 Descartes’s Provisional Morality Lisa Shapiro
17 Hobbes S.A. Lloyd
18 The Cambridge Platonists Sarah Hutton
19 Bayle Jean-Luc Solère
20 Leibniz Gregory Brown
21 Spinoza Steven Nadler
22 Pascal Desmond M. Clarke
23 Locke and Butler Stephen Darwall
24 Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and the Moral Sense James A. Harris
25 Hume Paul Guyer
26 Smith and Bentham Craig Smith
27 Rousseau Susan Meld Shell
28 Rationalism and Perfectionism Stefano Bacin
29 Kant Jens Timmermann
30 Fichte Allen Wood
31 Hegel Dudley Knowles
32 Mill Christopher Macleod
33 Schopenhauer Alistair Welchman
34 Kierkegaard R. Zachary Manis
35 American Transcendentalism Russell B. Goodman
36 Nietzsche Lawrence Hatab
37 Marxism Jeffrey Reiman
38 Sidgwick Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
39 Pragmatism Cheryl Misak
40 British Idealism Robert Stern
41 Ethical Intuitionism Philip Stratton-Lake
42 Husserl and Phenomenological Ethics Nicolas de Warren
43 Ethics in Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis Edward Harcourt
44 Noncognitivism: From the Vienna Circle to the Present Day John Eriksson
45 The Frankfurt School Fred Rush
46 Heidegger Sacha Golob
47 Sartre Sebastian Gardner
48 French Ethical Philosophy since the 1960s Todd May
49 Wittgenstein’s Ethics and Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy David Levy
50 Anti-Theory: Anscombe, Foot and Williams Simon Robertson
51 Discourse Ethics Peter Niesen
52 Decision Theory Ben Eggleston
53 Rawls Katrin Flikschuh

References

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  1. ^ a b Irwin, T. H. (2020). "The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy ed. by Sacha Golob and Jens Timmermann (review)". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 58 (2): 415–419. doi:10.1353/hph.2020.0033. ISSN 1538-4586. S2CID 216251688.
  2. ^ Head, Jonathan (2 November 2019). "The Cambridge history of moral philosophy". British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 27 (6): 1239–1240. doi:10.1080/09608788.2019.1616159. ISSN 0960-8788. S2CID 190439714.
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