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
... mind there is nothing but ignorance and blindness concerning heavenly matters. Secondly, the conscience is defiled, being always either benumbed with sin, or else turmoiled with inward accusations and terrors. Thirdly, the will of man ...
... mind there is nothing but ignorance and blindness concerning heavenly matters. Secondly, the conscience is defiled, being always either benumbed with sin, or else turmoiled with inward accusations and terrors. Thirdly, the will of man ...
Pàgina 9
... mind when the lesson is complete – is the following description of the three things that await all reprobates : — [ F ] irst , a perpetual separation from God's presence ; secondly , fellowship with the devil and his angels ; thirdly ...
... mind when the lesson is complete – is the following description of the three things that await all reprobates : — [ F ] irst , a perpetual separation from God's presence ; secondly , fellowship with the devil and his angels ; thirdly ...
Pàgina 13
... mind is Happiness within " ( Aphorisms 576 ) , and all the evidence suggests that Whichcote was happy with himself , that he knew firsthand the importance of " Self - Enjoyment " ( Aphorisms 278 and 280 ) . Whichcote is also ...
... mind is Happiness within " ( Aphorisms 576 ) , and all the evidence suggests that Whichcote was happy with himself , that he knew firsthand the importance of " Self - Enjoyment " ( Aphorisms 278 and 280 ) . Whichcote is also ...
Pàgina 14
... Mind or Reason well compos'd , quiet , easy within it - self , and such as can freely bear its own Inspection and Review ” ( Virtue or Merit 66 ) . Francis Hutcheson ( as we will see in Chapter 14 ) argued that a virtu- ous person will ...
... Mind or Reason well compos'd , quiet , easy within it - self , and such as can freely bear its own Inspection and Review ” ( Virtue or Merit 66 ) . Francis Hutcheson ( as we will see in Chapter 14 ) argued that a virtu- ous person will ...
Pàgina 15
... mind being “ easy with itself , " or of being one's " own friend . " The line of thought that placed great importance on self - respect and being able to bear one's own survey - found in Socrates , Plato , Shaftesbury , Butler , Hume ...
... mind being “ easy with itself , " or of being one's " own friend . " The line of thought that placed great importance on self - respect and being able to bear one's own survey - found in Socrates , Plato , Shaftesbury , Butler , Hume ...
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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.