ISBN Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy book English Hardcover 466 pages

J. B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics the history of ethics and moral psychology together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The volume ranges across the seventeenth eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: it includes Schneewind's early anti-foundationalist 'Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles' the classic 'The Misfortunes of Virtue' and other early essays on Kant's relation to pre-Kantian moral philosophy; also a long piece on 'The Active Powers' and Schneewind's own interpretation of Kant's moral philosophy. These writings provide excellent introductions to Schneewind's two long books and supplement them in important ways.