The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy

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Legal Page A Note on References and Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1. Themes in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy 2. Natural Law: From Intellectualism to Voluntarism 3. Setting Religion Aside: Republicanism and Skepticism 4. Natural Law Revisited: Suarez and Grotius 5. Grotianism at the Limit: Hobbes 6. A Morality of Love: Cumberland 7. The Central Synthesis: Pufendorf 8. The Collapse of Modern Natural Law: Locke and Thomasius PART II: PERFECTIONISM AND RATIONALITY 9. Origins of Modern Perfectionism 10. Paths to God: I. The Cambridge Platonists 11. Paths to God: II. Spinoza and Malebranche 12. Leibniz: Counterrevolutionary Perfectionism PART III: TOWARD A WORLD ON ITS OWN 13. Morality Without Salvation 14. The Recovery of Virtue 15. The Austerity of Morals: Clarke and Mandeville 16. The Limits of Love: Hutcheson and Butler 17. Hume: Virtue Naturalized 18. Against a Fatherless World 19. Noble Effects of Self-Love PART IV: AUTONOMY AND DIVINE ORDER 20. Perfection and Will: Wolff and Crusius 21. Religion, Morality, and Reform 22. The Invention of Autonomy 23. Kant in the History of Moral Philosophy EPILOGUE 24. Pythagoras, Socrates, and Kant: Understanding the History of Moral Philosophy Bibliography Sources Commentary Index of Names Index of Subjects Index of Biblical Citations