Name: Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy
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Author: John Rawls
ISBN: 9780674004429

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Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Rawls

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0674004426

ISBN13

9780674004429

Synopsis "Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy "

The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students--and a regeneration of moral philosophy. It invites readers to learn from the most noted exemplars of modern moral philosophy with the inspired guidance of one of contemporary philosophy's most noteworthy practitioners and teachers.

Central to Rawls's approach is the idea that respectful attention to the great texts of our tradition can lead to a fruitful exchange of ideas across the centuries. In this spirit, his book engages thinkers such as Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and Hegel as they struggle in brilliant and instructive ways to define the role of a moral conception in human life. The lectures delineate four basic types of moral reasoning: perfectionism, utilitarianism, intuitionism, and--the ultimate focus of Rawls's course--Kantian constructivism. Comprising a superb course on the history of moral philosophy, they also afford unique insight into how John Rawls has transformed our view of this history.

John Rawls

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John Rawls, American philosopher and professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism (1993), The Law of Peoples (1999), and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001). He is widely regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century. His political theory proposes two principles on which to base the notion of justice from an original position in the contractarian spirit of classical political philosophers.

Rawls was awarded the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton.

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