Moral Motivation

Iakovos Vasiliou is currently Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has published a number of articles on Plato and Aristotle, and is the author of Aiming at Virtue in Plato (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has also taught at Brooklyn College, Georgia State University, and Johns Hopkins University.

• Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Iakovos Vasiliou 1. Plato and Moral Motivation Iakovos Vasiliou Reflection: Moral Motivation: Achilles and Homer's Iliad Nancy Worman 2. Aristotle on Moral Motivation Susan Sauvé Meyer 3. A Later (and Non-Standard) Aristotelian Account of Moral Motivation Brad Inwood Reflection: Cicero on Moral Motivation and Seeing (How) To Be Good Joy Connolly 4. Moral Motivation in Medieval Philosophy Jonathan Jacobs 5. Act and Moral Motivation in Spinoza Steven Nadler Reflection: Moral Motivation and Music as Moral Judge Chadwick Jenkins 6. Locke on Pleasure, Law, and Moral Motivation Phillip Mitsis 7. Hume on Moral Motivation Jacqueline Taylor 8. Kant and Moral Motivation: The Value of Free Rational Willing Jennifer Uleman 9. Moral Motivation in Post-Kantian Philosophy: Fichte and Hegel Angelica Nuzzo Reflection: Moral Motivation and the Limits of Moral Agency in Literary Naturalism: Dreiser's Sister Carrie Anne Diebel 10. Consequentialism, Moral Motivation, and the Deontic Relevance of Motives Steven Sverdlik Bibliography Index

In sum, this volume includes a number of strong and even groundbreaking contributions. While most readers are likely to focus on the chapters of particular interest to them, the collection as a whole offers a sophisticated and engaging overview of the history of philosophical discussion of moral motivation, and would make an excellent companion to an upper level course on the topic. I recommend the volume to anyone with an interest in the history of the philosophical study of moral motivation.