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Moral philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain : God, self, and other / Colin Heydt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heydt, Colin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Ethics.
- Ethics--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 289 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Foundations
- Morality not in accordance with virtues but in accordance with duties: the Pufendorfian shift in moral philosophy
- The structure of practical ethics: duty and virtue
- The structure of practical ethics: duty and right
- Relations to God
- Duties to God, revelation, and morality's history
- Breaking with convention: Hume, Smith, moral philosophy, and the God of natural religion
- Relations to self
- Moral relations to self and the significance of self-harm
- Anthropological optimism, pessimism, and the scope of self-cultivation
- Relations to others
- Relating to others: natural rights and community
- Why not polygamy? Natural law and the family
- Political jurisprudence and its limits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108421096
- 1108421091
- OCLC:
- 990971092
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