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Great philosophy/intellectual history, but sooo long..my feeble brain could not keep all the names/schools straight or make any clear conclusions about Kant, who has little more than a cameo in a book which culminates in him.
Magisterial.
Read sections on Scottish moral philosophers.
Exhaustive and exhausting survey, though that's not quite the right term. Schneewind's brief is not really a survey of moral philosophy so much as an extremely thorough effort to contextualize Kant's thinking in (especially) the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Readers will get MUCH more out of this survey if they have at least a passing knowledge of that foundational text. If one makes one's way through the entire book, one comes to understand that essential Kantian concepts like perfec...
My first reaction to the book is to be very impressed at how the author has managed to organize a great deal of material in a manner that is instructive, but which I mean it promotes understanding of the material. This it does extremely well, and I am very thankful for that and glad I read the book. However, I am concerned that there are issues with the book that surely generate misunderstanding and the book did not flag very well what those misunderstandings are.There are three identifiable cau...
This goes from "you are doomed, everyone", to "you are doomed, everyone, except if god randomly decides to give you grace", to "you are doomed, everyone, except if you are nice, then god has to give you grace" (Pelagianism), to saying that Kant invented autonomy. Along the way, a heap of debris is assembled in some unsystematic, unstructured, wrong, and incomplete fashion that is impressively tedious. Quite the feat, given the subject matter of free will, the good life, rights and obligations an...
Does a good job balancing the need to capture hundreds of years of thought while also delving deeper into the major thinkers. While it can bog down in places, Schneewind does a good job of crafting a compelling narrative that is often interesting and engaging.
