Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
- The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Ethics before Socrates
- 2 Socrates and Sophists
- 3 Plato
- 4 Aristotle
- 5 Epicureanism and Hedonism
- 6 Stoicism
- 7 Ancient Skepticism
- 8 Neo-Platonism
- 9 Early Christian Ethics
- 10 Boethius, Abelard and Anselm
- 11 Medieval Jewish Ethics
- 12 Moral Philosophy in the Medieval Islamicate World
- 13 “Christian Aristotelianism”? Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
- 14 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham
- 15 Humanism
- 16 The Protestant Reformation
- 17 Descartes’s Provisional Morality
- 18 Hobbes
- 19 The Cambridge Platonists
- 20 Bayle
- 21 Leibniz
- 22 Spinoza
- 23 Pascal
- 24 Locke and Butler
- 25 Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and the Moral Sense
- 26 Hume
- 27 Smith and Bentham
- 28 Rousseau
- 29 Rationalism and Perfectionism
- 30 Kant
- 31 Fichte
- 32 Hegel
- 33 Mill
- 34 Schopenhauer
- 35 Kierkegaard
- 36 American Transcendentalism
- 37 Nietzsche
- 38 Marxism
- 39 Sidgwick
- 40 Pragmatism
- 41 British Idealism
- 42 Ethical Intuitionism
- 43 Husserl and Phenomenological Ethics
- 44 Ethics in Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis
- 45 Noncognitivism: From the Vienna Circle to the Present Day
- 46 The Frankfurt School
- 47 Heidegger
- 48 Sartre
- 49 French Ethical Philosophy since the 1960s
- 50 Wittgenstein’s Ethics and Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy
- 51 Anti-Theory: Anscombe, Foot and Williams
- 52 Discourse Ethics
- 53 Decision Theory
- 54 Rawls
- Index
- References
29 - Rationalism and Perfectionism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2017
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
- The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Ethics before Socrates
- 2 Socrates and Sophists
- 3 Plato
- 4 Aristotle
- 5 Epicureanism and Hedonism
- 6 Stoicism
- 7 Ancient Skepticism
- 8 Neo-Platonism
- 9 Early Christian Ethics
- 10 Boethius, Abelard and Anselm
- 11 Medieval Jewish Ethics
- 12 Moral Philosophy in the Medieval Islamicate World
- 13 “Christian Aristotelianism”? Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
- 14 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham
- 15 Humanism
- 16 The Protestant Reformation
- 17 Descartes’s Provisional Morality
- 18 Hobbes
- 19 The Cambridge Platonists
- 20 Bayle
- 21 Leibniz
- 22 Spinoza
- 23 Pascal
- 24 Locke and Butler
- 25 Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and the Moral Sense
- 26 Hume
- 27 Smith and Bentham
- 28 Rousseau
- 29 Rationalism and Perfectionism
- 30 Kant
- 31 Fichte
- 32 Hegel
- 33 Mill
- 34 Schopenhauer
- 35 Kierkegaard
- 36 American Transcendentalism
- 37 Nietzsche
- 38 Marxism
- 39 Sidgwick
- 40 Pragmatism
- 41 British Idealism
- 42 Ethical Intuitionism
- 43 Husserl and Phenomenological Ethics
- 44 Ethics in Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis
- 45 Noncognitivism: From the Vienna Circle to the Present Day
- 46 The Frankfurt School
- 47 Heidegger
- 48 Sartre
- 49 French Ethical Philosophy since the 1960s
- 50 Wittgenstein’s Ethics and Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy
- 51 Anti-Theory: Anscombe, Foot and Williams
- 52 Discourse Ethics
- 53 Decision Theory
- 54 Rawls
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy , pp. 379 - 393Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
References
Albrecht, M., 1992, “Die Tugend und die Chinesen. Antworten von Christian Wolff auf die Frage nach dem Verhältnis zwischen Religion und Moral,” in Carboncini, Sonia and Madonna, Luigi Cataldi (eds.), Nuovi studi sul pensiero di Christian Wolff, Hildesheim et al., Olms, 239–62.Google Scholar
Allegri, F., 2005, Le radici storiche dell’etica analitica. Richard Price e il fondamento della virtù, Milan, Franco Angeli.Google Scholar
Balguy, J., 1733a, The Second Part of the Foundation of Moral Goodness, 2nd edn, London (1st edn, 1729).Google Scholar
Balguy, J., 1733b, The Law of Truth: Or, the Obligations of Reason Essential to All Religion, London.Google Scholar
Baumgarten, A.G., 1760, Initia philosophiae practicae primae, Halae Magdeburgicae [Halle an der Saale].Google Scholar
Baumgarten, A.G., 1969, Ethica philosophica, Hildesheim, Olms (reprint of 3rd edn, Halle, 1763 [1st edn 1740]).Google Scholar
Benden, M., 1972, Christian August Crusius: Wille und Verstand als Prinzipien des Handelns, Bonn, Bouvier.Google Scholar
Burnet, G., 1735, Letters Between the Late Mr. Gilbert Burnet, and Mr. Hutchinson [sic], Concerning the True Foundation of Virtue or Moral Goodness. Formerly Published in the London Journal, London.Google Scholar
Campo, M., 1980, Il razionalismo precritico di Cristiano Wolff, Hildesheim, et al., Olms (reprint of Milan, 1939 edn).Google Scholar
Crusius, Ch.A., 1969, Anweisung vernünftig zu leben, Hildesheim, et al., Olms (reprint of Leipzig, 1744 edn).Google Scholar
Feder, J.G.H., 1779–1793, Untersuchungen über den menschlichen Willen, 4 vols., Göttingen, and Lemgo, , Meyer, (reprint, Brussels, Culture et Civilisation, 1968).Google Scholar
Gill, M., 2006, The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Gill, M., 2007, “Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism: Is Morality More Like Math or Beauty?,” Philosophy Compass 2, 16–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harris, J., 2005, Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy, Oxford, Clarendon Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hudson, W.D., 1970, Reason and Right: A Critical Examination of Richard Price’s Moral Philosophy, London, Macmillan.Google Scholar
Irwin, T., 2008, The Development of Ethics, vol. 2: Suárez to Rousseau, Oxford University Press.*CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kuehn, M., 1987, Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768–1800, Kingston, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press.Google Scholar
Louden, R.B., 2003, “‘What Does Heaven Say?’: Christian Wolff and Western Interpretations of Confucian Ethics,” in Van Norden, Bryan W. (ed.), Confucius and the Analects. New Essays, Oxford University Press, 73–93.Google Scholar
Price, R., 1974, A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals, ed. Raphael, D.D., Oxford University Press, (1758, 3rd edn. 1787).Google Scholar
Schneewind, J.B., 1998, The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy, Cambridge University Press.*Google Scholar
Schneewind, J.B. (ed.), 2003, Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Schröer, Chr., 1988, Naturbegriff und Moralbegründung. Die Grundlegung der Ethik bei Christian Wolff und deren Kritik durch Immanuel Kant, Stuttgart, Kohlhammer.Google Scholar
Schwaiger, C., 1995, Das Problem des Glücks im Denken Christian Wolffs. Eine quellen-, begriffs- und entwicklungsgeschichtliche Studie zu Schlüsselbegriffen seiner Ethik, Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt, Frommann-Holzboog.*Google Scholar
Schwaiger, C., 2005, “Christian Wolffs ‘Philosophia practica universalis’. Zu ursprünglichem Gehalt und späterer Gestalt einer neuen Grundlagendisziplin,” in Madonna, Luigi Cataldi (ed.), Macht und Bescheidenheit der Vernunft. Beiträge zur Philosophie Christian Wolffs, Hildesheim, et al., Olms, 219–33.Google Scholar
Schwaiger, C., 2011, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten – ein intellektuelles Porträt. Studien zur Metaphysik und Ethik von Kants Leitautor, Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt, Frommann-Holzboog.Google Scholar
Tilley, J., 2012, “The Problem of Inconsistency in Wollaston’s Moral Theory,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 29, 265–80.Google Scholar
Tweyman, S., 1976, “Truth, Happiness and Obligation: The Moral Philosophy of William Wollaston,” Philosophy 51, 35–46.Google Scholar
Wolff, Chr., 1962, Philosophia prima sive ontologia methodo scientifica pertractata qua omnis cognitionis humanae principia continentur, ed. École, Jean, Hildesheim, et al., Olms (reprint of Frankfurt, 1730 edn [2nd edn. 1736]).Google Scholar
Wolff, Chr., 1970, Philosophia moralis sive ethica, Hildesheim, et al., Olms (reprint of Halle, 1750–1753 [5 vols.] edn).Google Scholar
Wolff, Chr., 1971, Philosophia practica universalis, methodo scientifica pertractata, Pars prior, theoriam complectens, qua omnis actionum humanarum differentia, omnisque juris ac obligationum omnium, principia, a priori demonstrantur, Hildesheim, et al., Olms (reprint of Francofurti et Lipsiae [Frankfurt and Leipzig], 1738 edn).Google Scholar
Wolff, Chr., 1979, Philosophia practica universalis, methodo scientifica pertractata, Pars posterior, praxin complectens, qua omnis praxeos moralis principia inconcussa ex ipsa animae humanae natura a priori demonstrantur, Hildesheim, et al., Olms (reprint of Francofurti et Lipsiae [Frankfurt and Leipzig], 1739 edn).Google Scholar
Wolff, Chr., 1983, Vernünfftige Gedancken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen, auch allen Dingen überhaupt, den Liebhabern der Wahrheit mitgetheilt, Hildesheim, Olms (reprint of Halle, 1751 [4th] edn [1st edn 1719]).Google Scholar
Wolff, Chr., 1985, Oratio de Sinarum philosophia practica, Latin text with German translation: Rede über die praktische Philosophie der Chinesen, ed. Albrecht, M., Hamburg, Meiner (reprint of Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt am Main], 1726 edn).Google Scholar
Wolff, Chr., 1996, Vernünfftige Gedancken von der Menschen Thun und Lassen zur Beförderung ihrer Glückseligkeit, ed. Arndt, H.W., Hildesheim, et al., Olms (reprint of Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1733 [4th] edn [1st edn 1720]).Google Scholar
- 4
- Cited by