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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... conception of hell and a never-ending exhortation to engage in obsessive fault-finding self-scrutiny. It must all have loomed over the heads of young children like the sword of Damocles. 2 Whichcote and Cudworth's Positive Answer The ...
... conception of hell and a never-ending exhortation to engage in obsessive fault-finding self-scrutiny. It must all have loomed over the heads of young children like the sword of Damocles. 2 Whichcote and Cudworth's Positive Answer The ...
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... conception of the Positive Answer . Every human being is basically good , they believed , because every human soul is God - like . As Whichcote put it , “ Reverence God in thyself . for God is more in the Mind of Man , than in any part ...
... conception of the Positive Answer . Every human being is basically good , they believed , because every human soul is God - like . As Whichcote put it , “ Reverence God in thyself . for God is more in the Mind of Man , than in any part ...
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... conception of God. 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 ...
... conception of God. 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 ...
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... conception of God implies that He is good ; it tells us , rather , that on the Calvinist conception , God's goodness is merely tautological . But the ought - implies - can objection holds that the Calvinist conception of God is ...
... conception of God implies that He is good ; it tells us , rather , that on the Calvinist conception , God's goodness is merely tautological . But the ought - implies - can objection holds that the Calvinist conception of God is ...
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... conception of human nature also led them to develop a new understanding of heaven and hell . In opposition to the prevailing Calvinist approach , Whichcote and Cudworth argued that ministers ought not to describe heaven as “ a place of ...
... conception of human nature also led them to develop a new understanding of heaven and hell . In opposition to the prevailing Calvinist approach , Whichcote and Cudworth argued that ministers ought not to describe heaven as “ a place 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.