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 8
... Christian Religion Gathered into Six Principles,” which young children such as Ralph would have been made to memorize and recite. The catechism begins with the question “What doest thou believe con- cerning God?”, to which the child ...
... Christian Religion Gathered into Six Principles,” which young children such as Ralph would have been made to memorize and recite. The catechism begins with the question “What doest thou believe con- cerning God?”, to which the child ...
Pàgina 9
... Christ as their savior . But even acceptance of Christ is inextricably linked to an intimate and constant awareness of corruption . For the catechism teaches the child that he can have real faith in Christ only after he has fully ...
... Christ as their savior . But even acceptance of Christ is inextricably linked to an intimate and constant awareness of corruption . For the catechism teaches the child that he can have real faith in Christ only after he has fully ...
Pàgina 15
... Christian doctrine of the Fall of Man in general , and the Calvinists ' extreme interpretation of this doctrine in par- ticular . This belief , which is what I am calling the Negative Answer , implies that our soul will always harbor ...
... Christian doctrine of the Fall of Man in general , and the Calvinists ' extreme interpretation of this doctrine in par- ticular . This belief , which is what I am calling the Negative Answer , implies that our soul will always harbor ...
Pàgina 25
... Christians . This dim view of Plato and the other pre - Christian philosophers follows directly from the mainstream Protestant version of the Negative Answer . If human nature is wholly corrupt , then we must not trust advice that comes ...
... Christians . This dim view of Plato and the other pre - Christian philosophers follows directly from the mainstream Protestant version of the Negative Answer . If human nature is wholly corrupt , then we must not trust advice that comes ...
Pàgina 26
... Christian thought of Plato and the other Greeks ) and concentrate exclu- sively on scripture instead . Whichcote's response indicates clearly his belief that a lack of scriptural knowledge does not disqualify one from providing real and ...
... Christian thought of Plato and the other Greeks ) and concentrate exclu- sively on scripture instead . Whichcote's response indicates clearly his belief that a lack of scriptural knowledge does not disqualify one from providing real and ...
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The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics Michael B. Gill Previsualització no disponible - 2011 |
The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics Michael B. Gill Previsualització no disponible - 2006 |
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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.