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Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson : contesting diversity in the Enlightenment and beyond /

Are human beings linked by a common nature, or are they fragmented by different cultural practices and values? These fundamental moral questions were debated in the Enlightenment by Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson. Daniel Carey explores the relationship between these founding arguments and contemp...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carey, Daniel (Professor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Colección:Ideas in context ; 74.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Locke, diversity, and the natural history of man; CHAPTER 2 The uses of diversity: Locke's sceptical critique of Stoicism; CHAPTER 3 Locke's anthropology: travel, innateness, and the exercise of reason; CHAPTER 4 Contesting diversity: Shaftesbury's reply to Locke; CHAPTER 5 Method, moral sense, and the problem of diversity: Francis Hutcheson and the Scottish Enlightenment; CHAPTER 6 Conclusion: the future of diversity; Bibliography; Index.