caa a22 4500 386384371 CHVBK 20180307112054.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0265052500001011 doi S0265052500001011 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0265052500001011 Irwin T. H. Philosophy, Cornell University Tradition and Reason in the History of Ethics [Elektronische Daten] [T. H. Irwin] Students of the history of ethics sometimes find themselves tempted by moderate or extreme versions of an approach that might roughly be called ‘historicist'. This temptation may result from the difficulties of approaching historical texts from a ‘narrowly philosophical' point of view. We may begin, for instance, by wanting to know what Aristotle has to say about ‘the problems of ethics', so that we can compare his views with those of (say) Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Sidgwick, and Rawls, and then decide what is true or false in each theorist's position. But this narrowly philosophical attitude soon runs into difficulties, and writers on the history of ethics often warn us against it. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1989 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 45-68 0265-0525 7:1<45 1989 7 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500001011 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500001011 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Irwin T. H. Philosophy, Cornell University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 45-68 0265-0525 7:1<45 1989 7 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge