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1st Edition

The Modern Guise of the Good

Edited By Francesco Orsi Copyright 2024
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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This book is the first-ever collection dedicated to the guise of the good in early modern and later Western philosophy. It spans three centuries from Thomas Hobbes to Henry Sidgwick and features original contributions by some of the finest scholars. One of the staple items of Western philosophy is the idea that we can only desire, or pursue, something under the guise of the good: if we see... Read more

Introduction to the modern guise of the good

Francesco Orsi

 

1. Goodness and motivation

Thomas Pink

 

2. Locke on the guise of the good

Antonia LoLordo

 

3. Spinoza’s guise of the good: getting to the bottom of 3p9s

Matthew J. Kisner

 

4. The guise of the good in Leibniz

Julia Jorati

 

5. Kant and the “Old formula of the schools”

Robert B. Louden

 

6. Duality of motivation and the guise of the good in Kant’s practical philosophy

Sergio Tenenbaum

 

7. Mill’s proof and the guise of the good

Francesco Orsi

 

8. Sidgwick and the many guises of the good

Gianfranco Pellegrino

Biography

Francesco Orsi is Associate Professor in Theoretical Ethics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published on value theory, reasons, moral psychology, and the history of ethics. He is the author of Value Theory (2015) and The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History (2023).

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