Two Theories of Morality: Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lectures, 1976 - Hardcover

by Stuart Hampshire (Author)

In this expanded version of his Thank-Offering to Britain Fund lectures, delivered at the British Academy in February 1976, Stuart Hampshire compares two radically different conceptions of morality, those of Aristotle and Spinoza, authors, he claims, of the most plausible of all moral philosophies. He discusses the relation between moral intuitions and moral theory, and the contrasting ideas of moral normality and moral conversion. Spinoza's theory of the relation between mind and body is expounded and its relevance to recent theories is explained.

Author Biography

Stuart Hampshire (1914-2004), was formerly Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University.