Stephen Darwall is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale. He is the author of The Second-Person Standpoint (2006), in fundamental ethical theory, and Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant (Cambridge, 2023), in the history of ethics.

• Introduction; Part I. Post-Kantian German Idealism: 1. Fichte; 2. Hegel; Part II. Moralit Critique: 3. Marx; 4 .Kierkegaard; 5. Nietzsche; Part III. Sources of Naturalistic Utilitarianism: 6. Early modern prologue; 7. Bentham; 8. Mill; Part IV. Victorian Anti-Naturalism: 9. Sidgwick; 10. The British idealists.

'Stephen Darwall is both a leading moral philosopher and a leading historian of modern moral philosophy. His latest book tells the story of nineteenth century moral philosophy in both the German and the British traditions. Admirably, it begins by correcting the long neglect of Fichte's ethics, and takes us as far as Sidgwick and T. H. Green. His balanced yet critical approach helps us to see where our thinking about both individual agency and society has come from and also helps us to think about where it should be going.' Ruth Norman Halls Professor, Indiana University and Ward W. and Priscillia B. Woods Professor emeritus, Stanford University Allen Wood, Ruth Norman Halls Professor, Indiana University and Ward W. and Priscillia B. Woods Professor Emeritus, Stanford University