Jerome B. Schneewind

La autonomia es uno de los valores capitales de nuestra cultura, sin ella, no se podria entender la libertad. Sin embargo, esto no siempre fue asi, se libraron numerosas batallas intelectuales para fundar dicho valor. J. B Schneewind revisa la historia de la filosofia etica moderna en los siglos XVII y XVIII y reconstruye el momento y las causas de la invencion de la autonomia, cuya gestion tiene su origen en la obra moral de Kant. Con este libro el autor intento ensanchar su comprension historica de la filosofia moral de Kant vinculndola a obras previas sobre la materia.

La Invencion de la Autonomia: Una Historia de la Filosofia Moral Moderna = The Invention of Autonomy

Richard Rorty

Cambridge University Press

Professor of Comparative Literature Richard Rorty

Quentin Skinner

Richard M. Schneewind

Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.

Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy

Philosophy in History

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important texts in the history of ethics. In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This new edition of Kant's work provides a fresh translation that is uniquely faithful to the German original and more fully annotated than any previous translation. There are also four essays by well-known scholars that discuss Kant's views and the philosophical issues raised by the Groundwork. J.B. Schneewind defends the continuing interest in Kantian ethics by examining its historical relation both to the ethical thought that preceded it and to its influence on the ethical theories that came after it; Marcia Baron sheds light on Kant's famous views about moral motivation; and Shelly Kagan and Allen W. Wood advocate contrasting interpretations of Kantian ethics and its practical implications.

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

Study of the history of moral philosophy which puts Kant's ethics into historical context.

A History of Modern Moral Philosophy

The Invention of Autonomy

Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics challenges comparison, as no other work in moral philosophy, with Aristotle's Ethics in the depth of its understanding of practical rationality, and in its architectural coherence it rivals the work of Kant. In this historical, rather than critical study, Professor Schneewind shows how Sidgwick's arguments and conclusions represent rational developments of the work of Sidgwick's predecessors, and brings out the nature and structure of the reasoning underlying his position.

Jerome B. Schneewind

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