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Article: THE INVENTION OF AUTONOMY: A HISTORY OF MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY.(Review) (book review)
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- The Philosophical Review
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- July 1, 2000
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THE INVENTION OF AUTONOMY: A HISTORY OF MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY. By J. B. SCHNEEWIND. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 624.
With this work J. B. Schneewind has provided the most comprehensive history of modern moral philosophy available in English. Beginning with the moral theology of the Reformation and ending with Kant, Schneewind's book offers a panorama of moral philosophy that includes the early modern natural lawyers and their metaphysical critics, the British sentimentalists and their rationalist opponents, and a whole series of eighteenth-century attempts to develop a secular moral philosophy grounded in autonomous human reason and ...