Table of Contents

Part I: Theory
1: Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles
Part II: Victorian Matters
2: First Principles and Common Sense Morality in Sidgwick's Ethics
3: Moral Problem and Moral Philosophy in the Victorian Period
Part III: On the Historiography of Moral Philosophy
4: Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics
5: Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End?
6: No Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy
7: Teaching the History of Moral Philosophy
Part IV: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Moral Philosophy
8: The Divine Corporation and the History of Ethics
9: Natural Law
10: The Misfortune of Virtue
11: Voluntarism and the Foundations of Ethics
12: Hume and the Religious Significance of Moral Rationalism
Part V: On Kant
13: Why Study Kant's Groundwork?
14: Autonomy, Obligation and Virtue
15: Kant and Stoic Ethics
16: Towards Enlightenment
17: Kant on Unsocial Sociability
Part VI: Moral Psychology
18: The Active Powers
Part VII: Afterword
19: Sixty Years of Philosophy in a Life
J. B. Schneewind: Bibliography

About the Author

J. B. Schneewind is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied at Cornell and Princeton and has taught at Chicago, Yale, Princeton, Hunter, Stanford, Leicester, Halle, Helsinki, and Johns Hopkins. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been Chair of the Board of the Americal Philosopical Association and was awarded a Quinn Prize for Distinguished Service.

Reviews

This is a fine collection of essays by one of our profession's most influential and learned historians of ethics. It is an important resource for those researching and teaching moral philosophy and its history.
*Anthony Skelton, Mind*

I can honestly say that reading the essays is an inestimable joy. They are constantly fascinating, careful in design, lucid, beautifully written, precisely argued, rich, and always challenging.
*Michael L. Morgan, Journal of Utilitas*

His two long books and his essays are unrivalled in their combination of narrative skill, historical learning, and philosophical intelligence. Both the philosopher and the intellectual historian can learn from these books and essays.
*T. H. Irwin, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*