The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy

About this book

J.B. Schneewinds remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy. Its aim is to set Kants still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. In its range analyses and discussion of the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kants ethics.