Utilitas

Table of Contents - 2004 - Volume 16, Issue 02  


SYMPOSIUM ON J. B. SCHNEEWIND'S PHILOSOPHY

Morality as Self-governance: Has it a Future?

JOHN SKORUPSKI a1c1
a1 University of St Andrews

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Abstract

In The Invention of Autonomy, Schneewind argues that a main development in early modern ethical thought is the transition from a conception of morality as obedience to a conception of morality as self-governance. I consider the presuppositions implicit in the latter conception and ask whether they can be maintained.


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