Modern Moral Philosophy After Kant

FAIN: FEL-288634-23

Stephen L. Darwall
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

Research and writing leading to a book on the history of moral philosophy from the 17th through the 20th centuries.

I am applying for an NEH Fellowship for 2023-2024 to complete the second of a two-volume history of moral philosophy in the West from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth. The first volume, Modern Moral Philosophy from Grotius to Kant will be published within a year, and roughly forty percent of the second volume has been written. Modern Moral Philosophy After Kant will carry my history through the end of the twentieth century. So far, chapters on Fichte and Hegel and on Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche have been written. A chapter on the sources of Utilitarianism, Bentham, and Mill is currently underway. I project eight more chapters (eleven in all). I plan to complete three chapters before September 2023, which would leave five to write during 2023-2024.