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Voluntarism and the Shape of a History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2004

ROBERT MERRIHEW ADAMS
Affiliation:
Mansfield College, Oxford

Abstract

This article is concerned with the shape of the story of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century moral philosophy as told by J. B. Schneewind in The Invention of Autonomy. After discussion of alternative possible shapes for such a story, the focus falls on the question to what extent, in Schneewind's account, strands of empiricist voluntarism and rationalist intellectualism are interwoven in Kant. This in turn leads to consideration of different types of voluntarism and their roles in early modern ethical theory.

Type
SYMPOSIUM ON J. B. SCHNEEWIND'S PHILOSOPHY
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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