Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Haara, Heikki, Toivanen, Juhana

Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-04
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 286
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031553039
  • ISBN-13: 9783031553035

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商品描述

This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters explore both renowned and lesser-known thinkers from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, covering also the relevant ancient background. By bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern periods, they provide fresh insights into how moral and political philosophers understood the concepts of the common good and self-interest, along with their ethical and political implications. The concept of the common good occupies a central role in philosophical reflections on the public and private dimensions of moral and social life in contemporary debates. By exploring the rich and diverse ways in which the relationship between the common good and self-interest has been understood, this volume has the potential to contribute to our ongoing efforts to critically discern the possibilities and limitations of these concepts in the present. Thus, the volume will be useful for scholars interested in the multi-layered role of the notion of the common good both in the history of philosophy and in contemporary moral and political philosophy.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本開放存取的書籍提供了對西方哲學史上有關公共利益及其與自利之間關係的深入分析。這十三章探討了從中世紀到十八世紀的著名和較不知名的思想家，同時也涵蓋了相關的古代背景。通過搭起中世紀和近代早期之間的橋樑，它們提供了對道德和政治哲學家如何理解公共利益和自利的概念以及其倫理和政治影響的新見解。公共利益的概念在當代關於道德和社會生活的公共和私人層面的哲學思考中佔據著核心地位。通過探索對公共利益和自利之間關係的豐富多樣理解方式，這本書有潛力為我們持續努力批判性地辨識這些概念在當今的可能性和限制方面做出貢獻。因此，這本書對於對公共利益概念在哲學史和當代道德和政治哲學中多層次角色感興趣的學者將會很有用。

作者簡介

Heikki Haara, is University Lecturer in Political history at the University of Helsinki. His primary research interest has been theories of human nature and their relationship to moral and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has been a visiting researcher at the universities of California, Berkeley and Oxford and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is the author of Pufendorf's Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order (Springer, 2018) and the editor of Rights at the Margins: Historical, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives (Brill, 2020) and Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society (de Gruyter, 2020).

Juhana Toivanen is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has published widely on medieval philosophical psychology, medieval conceptions of animals, and political philosophy. His major publications include the monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (Brill, 2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (Brill, 2021). In addition, he has published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters. Currently he is working on social and political dimensions of moral vices in late medieval philosophy, focusing mainly on commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics from ca. 1250-1600.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Heikki Haara，是赫爾辛基大學政治歷史的大學講師。他的主要研究興趣是17世紀和18世紀的人性理論及其與道德和政治思想的關係。他曾在加州大學伯克利分校、牛津大學和赫爾辛基高等研究學院擔任訪問研究員。他是《普芬多夫的社交理論：激情、習慣和社會秩序》（Springer，2018）的作者，《邊緣的權利：歷史、哲學和法律的觀點》（Brill，2020）的編輯者，以及《激情、政治和社會界限》（de Gruyter，2020）的編輯者。

Juhana Toivanen 是芬蘭于韋斯屈萊大學哲學的高級講師。他廣泛發表關於中世紀哲學心理學、中世紀對動物的概念和政治哲學的文章。他的重要著作包括《知覺與內部感官》（Brill，2013）和《中世紀哲學中的政治動物》（Brill，2021）。此外，他還發表了50多篇期刊文章和專書章節。目前，他正在研究晚期中世紀哲學中道德惡習的社會和政治維度，主要關注1250年至1600年左右對亞里士多德《尼各馬可倫理學》和《政治學》的評論。

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