For the first time Leibniz' political, moral, and legal thought are extensively discussed here in English. The text includes fragments of his work that have never before been translated. Riley shows that a justice based on both wisdom and love, "wise charity," has at least as mu…
Descartes' Skeptizismus, dem in der Regel nur eine epistemische Bedeutung zugesprochen wird, erweist sich in der Lesart Araujos als relevant für eine grundlegende moralische Frage: die nach der menschlichen Autonomie überhaupt.
Main description: Inwiefern hängt unser Meinen von unserem Wollen ab? Descartes' vieldiskutierte Position wurde oft dahingehend gedeutet, wir verträten eine Meinung als Ergebnis einer Entscheidung. In Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy argumentiert der Autor gegen diese Interpreta…
Descartes' Skeptizismus, dem in der Regel nur eine epistemische Bedeutung zugesprochen wird, erweist sich in der Lesart Araujos als relevant für eine grundlegende moralische Frage: die nach der menschlichen Autonomie überhaupt.
An original interpretation of John Locke's metaphysics of moral agency, in which to be a moral agent is simply to be free rational, and a person. The author's account bears on Locke's metaphysics and political theory, and helps us understand his wider philosophical project and h…
"Antonia Lolordo presents an original interpretation of John Locke's conception of moral agency (one that has implications both for his metaphysics and for the foundations of his political theory. Locke denies that species boundaries exist independently of human convention, hold…
An original interpretation of John Locke's metaphysics of moral agency, in which to be a moral agent is simply to be free rational, and a person. The author's account bears on Locke's metaphysics and political theory, and helps us understand his wider philosophical project and h…
"Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their view…
