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Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls

By Barbara Herman , Christine M. Korsgaard , Andrews Reath

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
9780511527258, 0521472407, 051152725X, 9780521472401
LCC
BJ71 .R43 1996
Open Library ID
OL7742115M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6679896 bytes)
Pages
428\428
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. The distinctive feature of this approach is to address substantive normative questions in moral and political philosophy through an analysis of the texts and theories of major figures in the history of the subject: Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Marx. By reconstructing the core of these theories in a way that is informed by contemporary theoretical concerns, the contributors show how the history of the subject is a resource for understanding present and perennial problems in moral and political philosophy.

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