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 7
... According to this Calvinist view , humans had originally been created pure and good but through original sin had fallen to the depths of degradation . As a result , each and every human is now corrupt through and through . The ...
... According to this Calvinist view , humans had originally been created pure and good but through original sin had fallen to the depths of degradation . As a result , each and every human is now corrupt through and through . The ...
Pàgina 9
... ( according to the English Calvinists ) do not cultivate in themselves the proper internal state . They perform the req- uisite external actions , going to church , reciting their prayers , taking the sacraments , and refraining from ...
... ( according to the English Calvinists ) do not cultivate in themselves the proper internal state . They perform the req- uisite external actions , going to church , reciting their prayers , taking the sacraments , and refraining from ...
Pàgina 10
... (according to the English Calvinists) conclusive evidence of the superficial- ity of their own self-survey. For the soul of each of us is a “sea of corruption,” and if someone doesn't see his own sin, that merely means he isn't looking ...
... (according to the English Calvinists) conclusive evidence of the superficial- ity of their own self-survey. For the soul of each of us is a “sea of corruption,” and if someone doesn't see his own sin, that merely means he isn't looking ...
Pàgina 20
... according to this reading, Psalms 20:27 is telling us that just as the flame of a candle is essentially identical to the fire of the sun, so too the spirit of each of us is fundamentally God-like. Also crucial to the imagery of the ...
... according to this reading, Psalms 20:27 is telling us that just as the flame of a candle is essentially identical to the fire of the sun, so too the spirit of each of us is fundamentally God-like. Also crucial to the imagery of the ...
Pàgina 21
... According to voluntarism, prior to God's act of creation nothing existed. There was no material world, no numbers, no geometric entities – and no morality. Then (according to voluntarism) God willed everything into existence, creating ...
... According to voluntarism, prior to God's act of creation nothing existed. There was no material world, no numbers, no geometric entities – and no morality. Then (according to voluntarism) God willed everything into existence, creating ...
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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.