Moral motivation : a history / Iakovos Vasiliou
- Published:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators:
- Vasiliou, Iakovos, 1966-
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
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- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Plato and Moral Motivation / Iakovos Vasiliou -- Reflection: Moral Motivation: Achilles and Homer's Iliad / Nancy Worman -- 2.Aristotle on Moral Motivation / Susan Sauve Meyer -- 3.A Later (and Nonstandard) Aristotelian Account of Moral Motivation / Brad Inwood -- Reflection: Cicero on Moral Motivation and Seeing (How) to Be Good / Joy Connolly -- 4.Moral Motivation in Christian and Jewish Medieval Philosophy / Jonathan Jacobs -- 5.Act and Moral Motivation in Spinoza's Ethics / Steven Nadler -- Reflection: Moral Motivation and Music as Moral Judge / Chadwick Jenkins -- 6.Locke on Pleasure, Law, and Moral Motivation / Phillip Mitsis -- 7.Hume on Moral Motivation / Jacqueline Taylor -- 8.Kant and Moral Motivation: The Value of Free Rational Willing / Jennifer Uleman -- 9.Moral Motivation in Post-Kantian Philosophy: Fichte and Hegel / Angelica Nuzzo -- Reflection: Moral Motivation and the Limits of Moral Agency in Literary Naturalism: Dreiser's Sister Carrie / Anne Diebel -- 10.Consequentialism, Moral Motivation, and the Deontic Relevance of Motives / Steven Sverdlik.
- Summary:
- 'Moral Motivation' provides a history of moral motivation by ten eminent scholars, covering Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, the consequentialists and others. It shows the complexity of the historical treatment of moral motivation and, moreover, how intertwined discussion of moral motivation is with central aspects of ethical theory.
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- ISBN:
- 9780190496258 (ebook)
- Audience Notes:
- Specialized.
- Note:
- Previously issued in print: 2016.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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