Readings, reconstructions, and reception : Three case studies of Anglophone reception of Cartesian ethics
Gåvertsson, Frits LU
(2020)
In Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria
2020.
p.13-32
- Abstract
- I argue that reception history can have a, limited but important, role to play as tie- breaker in the evaluation of reconstructions of historical philosophical arguments and positions. In an effort to exemplify the proposed methodology I argue that Lisa Shapiro’s rational reconstruction of Descartes’s provisional moral code in terms of a broad conception of morality supplies us with an interpretative framework that have greater historiographical resources than its main competitors when it comes to the reception of Descartes’s moral philosophy in an Anglophone context on three occasions: the appeal to Descartes made by Henry More, Henry Sidgwick’s abrupt dis- missal, and the ensuing reaction to Sidgwick found in Grace Neal Dolson. These... (More)
- I argue that reception history can have a, limited but important, role to play as tie- breaker in the evaluation of reconstructions of historical philosophical arguments and positions. In an effort to exemplify the proposed methodology I argue that Lisa Shapiro’s rational reconstruction of Descartes’s provisional moral code in terms of a broad conception of morality supplies us with an interpretative framework that have greater historiographical resources than its main competitors when it comes to the reception of Descartes’s moral philosophy in an Anglophone context on three occasions: the appeal to Descartes made by Henry More, Henry Sidgwick’s abrupt dis- missal, and the ensuing reaction to Sidgwick found in Grace Neal Dolson. These cases, although far from exhaustive, go some way towards showing, I maintain, how reception history can be utilized to inform and support rational reconstruction of philosophical texts. (Less)
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- Gåvertsson, Frits
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- 2020
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- keywords
- Reception history, morale par provision, Descartes, Henry More, Grace Neal Dolson, Henry Sidgwick
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- Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria
- volume
- 2020
- pages
- 20 pages
- publisher
- Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet
- ISSN
- 0076-1648
- project
- The Somerville-group and the introduction of historical arguments in philosophy
- language
- English
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- yes
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- ISBN: 978-91-85286-70-6
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