《LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY》：Rawls's 'Kant Lectures' have enjoyed a cult status so great that it has propelled dog-eared copies of his notes across campuses and generations. After being guided by Rawls's able hand through the rigors of such texts as Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Hume's Treatise on Human Nature, readers will appreciate how Rawls's generosity, both to students and subject, earned these Harvard lectures a place in legend.

《LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY》 is Written by JOHN RAWLS.

《LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY》 as follows:

A leading political philosopher of his day, John Rawls,in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today, This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students-and a regeneration of moral philosophy. It invites readers to learn from the most noted exemplars of modern moral philosophy with the inspired guidance of one of contemporary philosophy's most noteworthy practitioners and teachers.

Central to Rawls's approach is the idea that respectful attention to the great texts of our tradition can lead to a fruitful exchange of ideas across the centuries.In this spirit, his lectures engage thinkers such as Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and Hegel as they struggle in profound and instructive ways to give an account of how the moral order arises from human nature and from the requirements of our living together, and how we come to have sufficient motives to live the life we ought, without the need of external sanctions.Comprising a superb course on the history of moral philosophy, they also afford unique insight into how John Rawls has transformed our view of this history.

EDITOR'S FOREWORD

A NOTE ON THE TEXTS

INTRODUCTION: MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHY, 1600--1800

1.A Difference between Classical and Modem Moral Philosophy

2.The Main Problem of Greek Moral Philosophy

3.The Background of Modem Moral Philosophy

4.The Problems of Modem Moral Philosophy

5.The Relation between Religion and Science

6.Kant on Science and Religion

7.On Studying Historical Texts

HUME

LEIBNIZ

KANT

HEGEL

APPENDIX:COUSE OUTLINE

INDEX