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.

• AcknowledgementsContributors IntroductionIakovos Vasiliou1. Plato and Moral MotivationIakovos VasiliouReflection: Moral Motivation: Achilles and Homer's IliadNancy Worman2. Aristotle on Moral MotivationSusan Sauvé Meyer3. A Later (and Non-Standard) Aristotelian Account of Moral MotivationBrad InwoodReflection: Cicero on Moral Motivation and Seeing (How) To Be GoodJoy Connolly 4. Moral Motivation in Medieval Philosophy Jonathan Jacobs5. Act and Moral Motivation in SpinozaSteven NadlerReflection: Moral Motivation and Music as Moral JudgeChadwick Jenkins6. Locke on Pleasure, Law, and Moral MotivationPhillip Mitsis7. Hume on Moral MotivationJacqueline Taylor8. Kant and Moral Motivation: The Value of Free Rational WillingJennifer Uleman9. Moral Motivation in Post-Kantian Philosophy: Fichte and HegelAngelica NuzzoReflection: Moral Motivation and the Limits of Moral Agency in Literary Naturalism: Dreiser's Sister CarrieAnne Diebel10. Consequentialism, Moral Motivation, and the Deontic Relevance of MotivesSteven SverdlikBibliographyIndex

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.