Two Theories of Morality

In this expanded version of his Thank-Offering to Britain Fund lectures, delivered at the British Academy in February 1976, Stuart Hampshire compares two radically different conceptions of morality, those of Aristotle and Spinoza, authors, he claims, of the most plausible of all moral philosophies. He discusses the relation between moral intuitions and moral theory, and the contrasting ideas of moral normality and moral conversion. Spinoza's theory of the relation between mind andbody is expounded and its relevance to recent theories is explained.Hampshire, Stuart is the author of 'Two Theories of Morality', published 1977 under ISBN 9780197259757 and ISBN 0197259758.