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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... Whichcote's.3 It is possible , as well , that when he had been a student in the 1620s Whichcote had encountered tutors at Cambridge who were inclining away from the Calvinist emphasis on the sinfulness of man.a But the nature of Whichcote's ...
... Whichcote's.3 It is possible , as well , that when he had been a student in the 1620s Whichcote had encountered tutors at Cambridge who were inclining away from the Calvinist emphasis on the sinfulness of man.a But the nature of Whichcote's ...
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... Whichcote was raised on the Calvinism of William Perkins . So he would have been instructed to scrutinize his heart ... Whichcote's thought , it will be helpful to situate it within the broader arc of larger developments in the history ...
... Whichcote was raised on the Calvinism of William Perkins . So he would have been instructed to scrutinize his heart ... Whichcote's thought , it will be helpful to situate it within the broader arc of larger developments in the history ...
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... Whichcote's Positive Answer is clearly anti - Calvinist , his Calvinist upbringing undoubtedly helped set him on the ... Whichcote's view of oth- ers mirrored his sanguine view of himself . ( Whichcote himself said that one's opinion of ...
... Whichcote's Positive Answer is clearly anti - Calvinist , his Calvinist upbringing undoubtedly helped set him on the ... Whichcote's view of oth- ers mirrored his sanguine view of himself . ( Whichcote himself said that one's opinion of ...
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... Whichcote's aphorisms, as for instance when he says, “Man, as a sociable Creature, is made for Converse with those that are his Equals; to Receive from them, and to Communicate to them; to Be the Better for them, and to Make them the ...
... Whichcote's aphorisms, as for instance when he says, “Man, as a sociable Creature, is made for Converse with those that are his Equals; to Receive from them, and to Communicate to them; to Be the Better for them, and to Make them the ...
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Michael B. Gill. Whichcote would thus have been more than just a professor to them . He would have been mentor , advisor , minister , and father figure all at once . B. " The Spirit of a Man Is the Candle of the Lord ” Under Whichcote's ...
Michael B. Gill. Whichcote would thus have been more than just a professor to them . He would have been mentor , advisor , minister , and father figure all at once . B. " The Spirit of a Man Is the Candle of the Lord ” Under Whichcote's ...
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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.