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The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics /
Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
New York : Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 359 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-349) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521852463 9780521852463 0511225687 9780511225680 9780511226250 051122625X 9780511224386 0511224389 9780511499272 0511499272 1280541326 9781280541322 |