Bibliography on Enlightenment Moral Thought

Compiled by Charles Bellinger c.bellinger@tcu.edu

 

Anderson-Gold, Sharon. Unnecessary Evil : History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Arrington, Robert L. Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism : Perspectives in Contemporary Moral Epistemology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Berger, Fred R. Happiness, Justice, and Freedom : The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Berkowitz, Peter. Nietzsche : The Ethics of an Immoralist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Caplan, Arthur L., and Bruce Jennings. Darwin, Marx, and Freud : Their Influence on Moral Theory. New York: Plenum Press, 1984.

Cassirer, H. W. Grace and Law : St. Paul, Kant, and the Hebrew Prophets. Grand Rapids, Mich. W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.: Edinburgh, 1988.

Danaher, William J., Jr. The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.

Donner, Wendy. The Liberal Self : John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Ewin, R. E. Virtues and Rights : The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.

Fiering, Norman. Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Gibbs, Robert. Why Ethics? : Signs of Responsibilities. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Grant, George Parkin. English-Speaking Justice. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985.

Griswold, Charles L. Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Cambridge, U.K.: New York, 1999.

Guyer, Paul. Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals : Critical Essays. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

Hare, J. E. The Moral Gap : Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance. Oxford Clarendon Press: New York, 1996.

Holbrook, Clyde A. The Ethics of Jonathan Edwards: Morality and Aesthetics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1973.

Hunt, Lester H. Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue. London: New York, 1991.

Hynson, Leon O. To Reform the Nation : Theological Foundations of Wesley's Ethics. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Francis Asbury Press, 1984.

Jennings, Theodore W. Good News to the Poor : John Wesley's Evangelical Economics. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Kashap, S. Paul. Spinoza and Moral Freedom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.

Kerner, George C. Three Philosophical Moralists : Mill, Kant, and Sartre :An Introduction to Ethics. Oxford England: Clarendon Press Oxford New York, 1990.

Lara, María Pía. Rethinking Evil : Contemporary Perspectives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Larmore, Charles E. The Morals of Modernity. Cambridge England: New York, 1996.

Long, D. Stephen. John Wesley's Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.

MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After Virtue : A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.

Marquardt, Manfred. John Wesley's Social Ethics : Praxis and Principles. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992.

Mulholland, Leslie Arthur. Kant's System of Rights. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Neiman, Susan. Evil in Modern Thought : An Alternative History of Philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Newton, Adam Zachary. Narrative Ethics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.

O'Neill, Onora. Constructions of Reason : Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy. Cambridge England: New York, 1989.

Peacock, Virginia A. Problems in the Interpretation of Jonathan Edwards' the Nature of True Virtue. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1990.

Poole, Ross. Morality and Modernity. London: New York, 1991.

Rawls, John, and Barbara Herman. Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Reno, Russell R. Redemptive Change : Atonement and the Christian Cure of the Soul. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2002.

Rossbach, Stefan. Gnostic Wars : The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Schneewind, J. B. The Invention of Autonomy : A History of Modern Moral Philosophy. Cambridge: New York NY USA, 1998.

———. Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant : An Anthology. Cambridge: New York, 1990.

Spellman, W. M. John Locke and the Problem of Depravity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Stone, Ronald H. John Wesley's Life & Ethics. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001.

Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self : The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Thomas, Laurence. Living Morally : A Psychology of Moral Character. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Velkley, Richard L. Freedom and the End of Reason : On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Weber, Theodore R. Politics in the Order of Salvation : New Directions in Wesleyan Political Ethics. Nashville, Tenn.: Kingswood Books, 2001.

———. Politics in the Order of Salvation : New Directions in Wesleyan Political Ethics. Nashville, Tenn.: Kingswood Books, 2001.