The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular EthicsCambridge University Press, 31 de jul. 2006 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. |
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Pàgina 10
... find all the sin within themselves without too much trouble – have undoubtedly failed to do so. What one must do is search within one's soul for every single spot of sin. And one must find and claim it all – every grand evil and small ...
... find all the sin within themselves without too much trouble – have undoubtedly failed to do so. What one must do is search within one's soul for every single spot of sin. And one must find and claim it all – every grand evil and small ...
Pàgina 11
... find within ourselves elements of God's grace (Perkins 159). Now no one can ever merit salvation; Perkins is clear about that. Every- one's soul is a “sea of corruption.” But God decided to bestow His grace on some people anyway. Why ...
... find within ourselves elements of God's grace (Perkins 159). Now no one can ever merit salvation; Perkins is clear about that. Every- one's soul is a “sea of corruption.” But God decided to bestow His grace on some people anyway. Why ...
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... find the sinfulness that lay therein . It seems likely , however , that when Whichcote looked within himself , he did not find the wickedness Perkins insisted would be there . What he likely found instead was a self that was ...
... find the sinfulness that lay therein . It seems likely , however , that when Whichcote looked within himself , he did not find the wickedness Perkins insisted would be there . What he likely found instead was a self that was ...
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... find . And in making this statement , Whichcote both revived the Platonic idea that one's goal ought to be to live in harmony with oneself and launched a self - respect and integrity - based view of morality that is still in full sail ...
... find . And in making this statement , Whichcote both revived the Platonic idea that one's goal ought to be to live in harmony with oneself and launched a self - respect and integrity - based view of morality that is still in full sail ...
Pàgina 19
... find your way home if you had only a candle to help you navigate . You are , according to the mainstream Protestant interpretation of Psalms 20:27 , just as ill - equipped to find the path of righteousness when you rely only on the ...
... find your way home if you had only a candle to help you navigate . You are , according to the mainstream Protestant interpretation of Psalms 20:27 , just as ill - equipped to find the path of righteousness when you rely only on the ...
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Pàgina 21 - God hath set up two lights to enlighten us in our way — the light of reason, which is the light of His creation ; and the light of Scripture, which is After-Revelation from Him. Let us make use of these two lights, and suffer neither to be put out.