PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: East Los Angeles College, Samuel Von Pufendorf, Hugo Grotius
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Moral philosophy in the 17th and 18th century- hugo grotius to kant. Modern western philosophy synthesized with the religious, political and moral upheavals. 17th century moral thought represents a break with late medieval and renaissance views. Hugo grotius (1583-1645)- alternative to scholastic natural law theory as well as the skeptical views from michele de montaigne- 1533-1592 made human law natural and necessary. Grotius takes an empirical approach, looked at human characteristics that. Did not ground his views in the good life" or the chief good"- but looked at. Plato and aristotle dealt wit the chief good for human beings, aristotle looks natural rights for the human good, but moral philosophy- increasingly with thinkers like. Grotius move away from the substantive view of the human good, to natural rights. Grotius calls natural rights a kind of moral quality of an individual agent. These rights must be upheld or respected by morally viable forms of human association.
