Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: On the Conflict between the Common Good and Individual Good (Juhana Toivanen and Heikki Haara)
- Part I: Ancient and Medieval Philosophical and Theological Views
- Chapter 2. Honestum to Goodness(Calvin Normore)
- Chapter 3. Interpreting Aristotle’s Concept of the Common Good(Anthony Celano)
- Chapter 4. Medieval Monastic Ideas of the Compatibility between the Individual and the Common Good(Ritva Palmén).-Chapter 5. Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on Charity and the Common Good(Iacopo Costa)
- Part II: "Common and Individual Good in Late Medieval Thought"
- Chapter 6. Convergences of Private Self-Interest and the Common Good in Medieval Europe: An Overview of Economic Theories, c. 1150–c. 1500(Cary Nederman)
- Chapter 7. Common Goods and the Common Good in John Duns Scotus(Nicolas Faucher)
- Chapter 8. Old Wine in New Wineskins: William Ockham and the Common Good in Context(Roberto Lambertini)
- Chapter 9. Is Socrates Permitted to Kill Plato?
- Part III: Common and Individual Good in Early Modern Philosophy(Juhana Toivanen)
- Chapter 10. Alignment of the Individual and Common Good in the Political Theory of Johannes Althusius(Jukka Ruokanen)
- Chapter 11. Individual and Common Utility within Grotius’s Theory of the State(Laetitia Ramelet)
- Chapter 12. The Compatibility of Individual and Common Good in Hobbes’s Philosophy(Alexandra Chadwick)
- Chapter 13. Self-Interest as a Source of the Common Good in Post-Hobbesian Natural Law(Heikki Haara)
- Chapter 14. Self-Interest and the Common Good in Early Modern Philosophy(Colin Heydt)