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
... corrupt through and through . The corruption of the Fall , moreover , was so complete , afflicting as it did all of our faculties , that we now lack even the ability to do anything to improve our degenerate state . Human sinfulness is ...
... corrupt through and through . The corruption of the Fall , moreover , was so complete , afflicting as it did all of our faculties , that we now lack even the ability to do anything to improve our degenerate state . Human sinfulness is ...
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... corrupt picture of human beings that was the core of Perkins's Negative Answer – and he was not willing to accede to the Perkinsian claim that his favorable self - impression was actually born of self - deceptive sinfulness . All the ...
... corrupt picture of human beings that was the core of Perkins's Negative Answer – and he was not willing to accede to the Perkinsian claim that his favorable self - impression was actually born of self - deceptive sinfulness . All the ...
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... corrupt and will thus inevitably produce a distorted picture of reality. Moreover, the Calvinists would have continued, to maintain that God Himself must be restrained by one's own idea of morality is to denigrate Him by denying His ...
... corrupt and will thus inevitably produce a distorted picture of reality. Moreover, the Calvinists would have continued, to maintain that God Himself must be restrained by one's own idea of morality is to denigrate Him by denying His ...
Pàgina 25
... corrupt , then we must not trust advice that comes solely from the human mind . We need instead to look to the scriptures , which have been given to us precisely because we are ill - equipped to find the right path on our own . But ...
... corrupt , then we must not trust advice that comes solely from the human mind . We need instead to look to the scriptures , which have been given to us precisely because we are ill - equipped to find the right path on our own . But ...
Pàgina 29
... corrupt. God, therefore, had to come from without; He had to be external to the sinful human soul. Which- cote and Cudworth, in contrast, brought God into every human soul. They believed that there was a sense in which God is present ...
... corrupt. God, therefore, had to come from without; He had to be external to the sinful human soul. Which- cote and Cudworth, in contrast, brought God into every human soul. They believed that there was a sense in which God is present ...
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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.