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 9
... actions , going to church , reciting their prayers , taking the sacraments , and refraining from " gross and palpable sins ” ( Perkins 286 ) . And they think that these activities are sufficient to put The Negative Answer of English ...
... actions , going to church , reciting their prayers , taking the sacraments , and refraining from " gross and palpable sins ” ( Perkins 286 ) . And they think that these activities are sufficient to put The Negative Answer of English ...
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... action , they are content with what they see . The Third Earl of Shaftesbury ( as we will see in Chapter 9 ) said that we ought to be virtuous because only a person of virtue can possess " a Mind or Reason well compos'd , quiet , easy ...
... action , they are content with what they see . The Third Earl of Shaftesbury ( as we will see in Chapter 9 ) said that we ought to be virtuous because only a person of virtue can possess " a Mind or Reason well compos'd , quiet , easy ...
Pàgina 15
... actions ” ( Aphorisms 391 ) . It is , however , possible for us to live in a way that does allow us to “ own ” and " approve " our own actions . Such a way of life , one that includes enjoyment of our own character , is what religion ...
... actions ” ( Aphorisms 391 ) . It is , however , possible for us to live in a way that does allow us to “ own ” and " approve " our own actions . Such a way of life , one that includes enjoyment of our own character , is what religion ...
Pàgina 21
... actions create goodness. His will brings the moral standard into existence. So on the voluntarist view, before God acted there was no moral standard at all. It thus becomes tautological – or empty– to say that God's will is good, in ...
... actions create goodness. His will brings the moral standard into existence. So on the voluntarist view, before God acted there was no moral standard at all. It thus becomes tautological – or empty– to say that God's will is good, in ...
Pàgina 32
... action that was wrong, according to Whichcote and Cudworth, was to force people to practice religion in ways they would not freely have chosen. It was intolerance of different forms of religion that was contrary to religion, not any of ...
... action that was wrong, according to Whichcote and Cudworth, was to force people to practice religion in ways they would not freely have chosen. It was intolerance of different forms of religion that was contrary to religion, not any of ...
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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.