New essays on the history of autonomy : a collection honoring J.B. Schneewind / edited by Natalie Brender, Larry Krasnoff.
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511498039 (ebook)
- 170 22
- B105.A84 N49 2004

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Justus Lipsius and the revival of stoicism in late sixteenth-century Europe / John M. Cooper -- Affective perfectionism: Community with God without common measure / Jennifer A. Herdt -- Autonomy and the invention of theodicy / Mark Larrimore -- Protestant natural law theory: a general interpretation / Knud Haakonssen -- Autonomy in modern natural law / Stephan Darwall -- Pythagoras enlightened: Kant on the effect of moral philosophy / Larry Krasnoff -- What is disorientation in thinking? / Natalie Brender -- Autonomy, plurality and public reason / Onora O'Neill -- Trapped between Kant and Dewey: the current situation of moral philosophy / Richard Rorty.
Kantian autonomy is often thought to be independent of time and place, but J. B. Schneewind in his landmark study, The Invention of Autonomy, has shown that there is much to be learned by setting Kant's moral philosophy in the context of the history of modern moral philosophy. The distinguished authors in the collection continue Schneewind's project by relating Kant's work to the historical context of his predecessors and to the empirical context of human agency. This will be a valuable resource for professionals and advanced students in philosophy, the history of ideas, and the history of political thought.