Author: Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-BiggePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
British Moralists
Author: Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-BiggePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought'
Author: Stephen L. DarwallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521457828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book is a major work in the history of ethics, and provides the first study of early modern British philosophy in several decades. Professor Darwall discerns two distinct traditions feeding into the moral philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, there is the empirical, naturalist tradition, comprising Hobbes, Locke, Cumberland, Hutcheson, and Hume, which argues that obligation is the practical force that empirical discoveries acquire in the process of deliberation. On the other hand, there is a group including Cudworth, Shaftesbury, Butler, and in some moments Locke, which views obligation as inconceivable without autonomy and which seeks to develop a theory of the will as self-determining.
The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics
Author: Michael B. GillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139458299
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, in this volume Michael Gill shows how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy. They effected a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human nature to thinking of it as part of human nature itself. He also shows how the British Moralists - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes by design - disengaged ethical thinking, first from distinctly Christian ideas and then from theistic commitments altogether. Examining in detail the arguments of Whichcote, Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson against Calvinist conceptions of original sin and egoistic conceptions of human motivation, Gill also demonstrates how Hume combined the ideas of earlier British moralists with his own insights to produce an account of morality and human nature that undermined some of his predecessors' most deeply held philosophical goals.
British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hume
Author: David Daiches RaphaelPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872201170
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"These two attractive volumes replace Selby-Bigge's well-known collection. . . . The present selection is superior in several respects. It is more inclusive, now that Hume, Hartley, Reid, and Cumberland are put in. . . . It is better arranged, the writers now appearing in chronological order. And besides reediting of the texts, the analytical index has been enormously enlarged and improved. . . . The book will be much more useful to students than its predecessor." -- British Book News
Public Moralists
Author: Stefan ColliniPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgments. Collini examines the characteristic idioms and strategies of argument employed in periodical and polemical writing, and reconstructs the sense of identity and of relation to an audience exhibited by social critics from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J.M. Keynes and F.R. Leavis.
Sacrifice Regained
Author: Roger CrispPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019257695X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being) and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of each to the other. Themes ran through many of these writers: psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and - after Hobbes - the acceptance of self-standing moral reasons. But there are exceptions, and even those taking the standard views adopt them for very different reasons and express them in various ways. As the ancients tended to believe that virtue and happiness largely coincide, so these modern authors are inclined to accept posthumous reward and punishment. Both positions sit uneasily with the common-sense idea that a person can truly sacrifice their own good for the sake of morality or for others. Roger Crisp shows that David Hume - a hedonist whose ethics made no appeal to the afterlife - was the first major British moralist to allow for, indeed to recommend, such self-sacrifice. Morality and well-being of course remain central to modern ethics, and Crisp demonstrates how much there is to learn from this remarkable group of philosophers.
British Moralists
Author: Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-BiggePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Moralists
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hobbes
Author: David Daiches RaphaelPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872201163
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"These two attractive volumes replace Selby-Bigge's well-known collection. . . . The present selection is superior in several respects. It is more inclusive, now that Hume, Hartley, Reid, and Cumberland are put in. . . . It is better arranged, the writers now appearing in chronological order. And besides reediting of the texts, the analytical index has been enormously enlarged and improved. . . . The book will be much more useful to students than its predecessor." -- British Book News
British Moralists
Author: Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-BiggePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description