Frans Svensson is Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His work has appeared in journals such as History of Philosophy Quarterly, Journal of Ethics, and Utilitas. He is the co-editor, with Martina Reuter, of Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza (Routledge, 2019).
“Frans Svensson’s Descartes’s Moral Perfectionism provides a thorough and sustained account of Descartes’s moral theory, contending that Descartes is not a virtue theorist or an Epicurean hedonist, as other commentators contend, but is a moral perfectionist. The book is well-researched, interesting, and provides a novel perspective on Descartes’s ethics and value theory.” Patrick Brissey, University of South Carolina, USA “Descartes’s Moral Perfectionism is an important contribution to the study of Descartes’s ethics. It will be at the center of future discussions not only of Descartes’s moral thinking but of its unity and of the relation between his ethics and his metaphysics.” Jorge Secada, University of Virginia, USA