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 8
... explaining that he “is by nature dead in sin as a loathsome carrion, or as a dead corpse [that] lieth rotting and stinking in the grave, having in him the seed of all sins” (Perkins 150). Corruption and sin, the child must continue, is ...
... explaining that he “is by nature dead in sin as a loathsome carrion, or as a dead corpse [that] lieth rotting and stinking in the grave, having in him the seed of all sins” (Perkins 150). Corruption and sin, the child must continue, is ...
Pàgina 9
... explain that some people will reach heaven . These heaven - bound people will , of course , accept Jesus Christ as their savior . But even acceptance of Christ is inextricably linked to an intimate and constant awareness of corruption ...
... explain that some people will reach heaven . These heaven - bound people will , of course , accept Jesus Christ as their savior . But even acceptance of Christ is inextricably linked to an intimate and constant awareness of corruption ...
Pàgina 21
... explained why Whichcote and Cudworth attributed to the Calvinists the idea that God's decision to damn certain people was arbitrary. Let us address this point now. The arbitrariness of God's decision follows in part from a Calvinist ...
... explained why Whichcote and Cudworth attributed to the Calvinists the idea that God's decision to damn certain people was arbitrary. Let us address this point now. The arbitrariness of God's decision follows in part from a Calvinist ...
Pàgina 22
... explained in a letter he wrote late in life describing the development of his thought in the 1630s , " I was not able to ascribe to God those dreadful decrees , which he inevitably condemned innocent men out of arbitrariousness to guilt ...
... explained in a letter he wrote late in life describing the development of his thought in the 1630s , " I was not able to ascribe to God those dreadful decrees , which he inevitably condemned innocent men out of arbitrariousness to guilt ...
Pàgina 27
... explains, states that are “present” to us here and now, “things that we are well acquainted with in this world.”11 Or as Cudworth puts it when criticizing the concentration on painted pictures of a paradisiacal heaven: Nay, we do but ...
... explains, states that are “present” to us here and now, “things that we are well acquainted with in this world.”11 Or as Cudworth puts it when criticizing the concentration on painted pictures of a paradisiacal heaven: Nay, we do but ...
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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.