Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant

Originally issued as a two-volume edition in 1990 the anthology is now re-issued (with a new foreword) as a one-volume anthology. It is a companion to Schneewind''s highly successful history of modern ethics The Invention of Autonomy. The anthology provides many of the sources discussed in The Invention of Autonomy. The combined two volumes are an invaluable resource for the teaching of the history of modern moral philosophy. This volume contains excerpts from some thirty-two important seventeenth and eighteenth century moral philosophers. As well as well-known thinkers such as Hobbes Hume and Kant there are excerpts from a wide-range of philosophers never previously assembled in one text such as Grotius Pufendorf Nicole Clarke Leibniz Malebranche Holbach and Paley. Including a substantial introduction and extensive bibliographies it facilitates the study and teaching of early modern moral philosophy in its crucial formative period.