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Article: THE INVENTION OF AUTONOMY: A HISTORY OF MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY.(Review)

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THE INVENTION OF AUTONOMY: A HISTORY OF MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY. BY J. B. SCHNEEWIND. Cambridge University Press. 624 pp. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

THE AUTONOMY WHOSE invention J. B. Schneewind explores in this long and magisterial history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century moral philosophy is Kantian autonomy. Yet, this is chiefly a book about Kant's predecessors. By studying them in detail, Schneewind hopes, as it were, to recreate the questions that must have been in Kant's mind, the problems he was considering, when he developed his notion of autonomy, which has had such a profound influence on the modern world. It is important to note that Kant is, on ...

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