Abstract
The second volume of the three-volume project "Approaches to Ethics" explores nine approaches to ethics developed in philosophy from the beginning of the Early Modern period up to the 20th century. Each chapter exposes the way certain philosophical conceptions deal with ethical questions in a specific context of thoughts: "Baruch Spinoza and the Ethical Consequences of Determinism", "David Hume's Anatomy of Human Nature", "The Unconditional Validity of the Moral Law: Immanuel Kant's Ethics", "Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Whoever wants to accomplish great things, must be able to limit himself", "Kierkegaard's Religious Ethics: The Isolated Individual Facing an Ethical Dilemma", "The Judicious Utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill", "The Ethics of Franz Brentano: the Good and the Correctness of Emotions", "Nietzsche: Ethics of Immoralism", "On the Possibility of a Hermeneutical Ethics in Heidegger and Gadamer: the Experience of Limits and the Ethos of Openness".