The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics / Michael B. Gill.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Gill, Michael B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ethics, Modern--17th century.
• Ethics, Modern.
• Ethics--Great Britain--History--17th century.
• Ethics, Modern--18th century.
• Ethics--Great Britain--History--18th century.
• Ethics.
• History.
• Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 359 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents:

• Part 1 Whichcote and Cudworth
• 1 The Negative Answer of English Calvinism 7
• 2 Whichcote and Cudworth's Positive Answer 12
• 3 Whichcote and Cudworth on Religious Liberty 30
• 4 Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth 38
• 5 The Emergence of Non-Christian Ethics 58
• Part 2 Shaftesbury
• 6 Shaftesbury and the Cambridge Platonists 77
• 7 Shaftesbury's Inquiry: A Misanthropic Faith in Human Nature 83
• 8 The Moralists; a Philosophical Rhapsody 100
• 9 Shaftesbury's Two Reasons to Be Virtuous: A Philosophical Fault Line 118
• Part 3 Hutcheson
• 10 Early Influences on Francis Hutcheson 135
• 11 Hutcheson's Attack on Egoism 141
• 12 Hutcheson's Attack on Moral Rationalism 156
• 13 A Copernican Positive Answer and an Attenuated Moral Realism 168
• 14 Explaining Away Vice, or Hutcheson's Defense of a Copernican, Theistic Positive Answer 181
• Part 4 David Hume
• 15 David Hume's New "Science of Man" 201
• 16 Hume's Arguments against Moral Rationalism 209
• 17 Hume's Associative Moral Sentiments 214
• 18 Hume's Progressive View of Human Nature 226
• 19 Comparison and Contingency in Hume's Account of Morality 241
• 20 What Is a Humean Account, and What Difference Does It Make? 262.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-349) and index.

ISBN:

0521852463

OCLC:

62381164

Publisher Number:

9780521852463

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