188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy. It offers a chronological narrative exploring how the doctrine was formulated, the arguments for and against it, and the broader role it played in the thought of different philosophers.
In recent years there has been a rich debate about whether value judgment or value perception... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Socrates and Plato
3. Aristotle and the Stoics
4. The Canon in Christian Philosophy
5. The Canon Doubted and Reaffirmed (1300-1600)
6. Descartes and Spinoza: Revision and Rejection
7. Empiricism: The Guise of the Good between Desire and Pleasure
8. The Guise of the Good in Hume and Kant
9. After Kant, Before Anscombe
10. Epilogue. A Fresh Start
Biography
Francesco Orsi is Associate Professor of Theoretical Ethics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is the author of Value Theory (2015) and several articles on the guise of the good and the nature of value appeared in Mind, Philosophical Studies, Analytic Philosophy, and other journals.
