Description
What ways do we have for understanding charity and philanthropy? How do we come to think in these ways? In this volume, historians of antiquity, the middle ages, early modern thought, and the Victorian era discuss the evolution of thinking about and practicing voluntary giving, taking up some inescapable questions about charity.
A rich portrait of the evolution of thinking about and practicing voluntary giving.
About the Author
J. B. SCHNEEWIND is Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy, and is completing a study of the history of moral philosophy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Book Information
ISBN 9780253330727
Author Jerome B. Schneewind
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 594g
