The ethics of subjectivity

perspectives since the dawn of modernity

Edited by
Elvis Imafidon

Palgrave Macmillan

2015

Abstract

Through the works of key figures in ethics since modernity this book charts a shift from dominant fixated, objective moral systems and the dependence on moral authorities such as God, nature and state to universal, formal, fallible, individualistic and/or vulnerable moral systems that ensue from the modern subject's exercise of reason and freedom.