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Article: The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy.(Review)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- September 22, 1998
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Schneewind, Jerome B.
The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy
New York: Cambridge University Press 623 pp., $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-521-47399-3 cloth ISBN 0-521-47938-X paper Publication Date: 1998
"I might not have undertaken the project if I had immediately realized how many philosophers I would need to discuss," the author of this encyclopedic study admits at the outset. But once he recognized "the rashness of the plan, it seemed too late to stop" (xiii). "The project," begun in 1981 and completed in 1997, was meant to satisfy the author's curiosity about Kant's ethics in its immediate historical context: ...