Author: Michael B. Gill
Publisher: 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.
The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics
Author: Michael B. Gill
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 Raphael
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hobbes-Gay
Author: David Daiches Raphael
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
British Moralists
Author: Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hobbes
Author: David Daiches Raphael
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought'
Author: Stephen L. Darwall
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
British Moralists, Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century: Samuel Clarke-Discourse upon natural religion ; Balguy-Foundation of moral goodness. Part I ; Richard Price-Review of the principal questions in morals ; (Appendix) Balguy-Foundation of moral goodness. Part II ; Brown-Essays on the characteristics. Essay II. On the motives of virtue ; John Clarke (of Hull)-Foundation of morality in theory and practice ; Cudworth-Treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality ; John Gay-Fundamental principle of virtue or morality ; Hobbes-Leviathan. Of human nature ; Kames-Essays on the principles of morality and natural religion ; Locke-Essay concerning human understanding ; Mandeville-Enquiry into the origin of moral virtue ; Paly-Principles of moral and political philosophy ; Wollaston-Religion of nature delineated
Author: Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
British Moralists
Author: Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Humean Moral Pluralism
Author: Michael B. Gill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198714033
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Michael B. Gill offers a new account of Humean moral pluralism: the view that there are different moral reasons for action, which are based on human sentiments. He explores its historical origins, and argues that it offers the most compelling view of our moral experience. Together, pluralism and Humeanism make a philosophically powerful couple.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198714033
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Michael B. Gill offers a new account of Humean moral pluralism: the view that there are different moral reasons for action, which are based on human sentiments. He explores its historical origins, and argues that it offers the most compelling view of our moral experience. Together, pluralism and Humeanism make a philosophically powerful couple.
British Moralists
Author: L. A. Selby-Bigge
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description