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Lectures On The History Of Moral Philosophy

By John Rawls , Barbara Herman

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780674002968, 0674002962, 0674004426, 9780674004429
LCC
BJ301 .R39 2000
Open Library ID
OL6782617M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3817793 bytes)
Pages
408\408
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

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.

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