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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2025

Stephen Darwall
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Yale University, Connecticut
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As in the first volume, my attention here will be devoted mainly, though hardly entirely, to ethical philosophers’ attempts to come to grips with deontic morality understood in the terms of Anscombe’s critique. Sometimes, these will be defenses and theoretical accounts, as with, for example, the nineteenth-century utilitarians – whether empiricist, like Bentham and Mill, or “philosophical intuitionist,” like Henry Sidgwick – or the moral theories of British idealists like T. H. Green and F. H. Bradley. But unlike mainstream seventeenth- and eighteenth-century moral philosophy – for instance, the modern natural lawyers, Grotius, Pufendorf, Hobbes, Locke, and Cumberland, the British rationalists, and Kant – the ethical philosophy of the nineteenth century is more often concerned to criticize deontic morality or to put it in its place. Examples here are Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and, of course, Nietzsche.

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  • Introduction
  • Stephen Darwall, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
  • Online publication: 15 November 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009543835.002
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  • Introduction
  • Stephen Darwall, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009543835.002
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  • Introduction
  • Stephen Darwall, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
  • Online publication: 15 November 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009543835.002
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