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
... humans are “ continually subject " because of their sinfulness ( Perkins 151-2 ) . The curse of God the child is made to ... morality is an individual's internal state of mind . Unfortunately , most people ( according to the English ...
... humans are “ continually subject " because of their sinfulness ( Perkins 151-2 ) . The curse of God the child is made to ... morality is an individual's internal state of mind . Unfortunately , most people ( according to the English ...
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... morality that is still in full sail today . But although Whichcote's Positive Answer is clearly anti - Calvinist , his Calvinist upbringing undoubtedly helped set him on the path to his view of human nature . For the English Calvinists ...
... morality that is still in full sail today . But although Whichcote's Positive Answer is clearly anti - Calvinist , his Calvinist upbringing undoubtedly helped set him on the path to his view of human nature . For the English Calvinists ...
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... morality. To hold that there were standards of right and wrong that existed prior to God's creations – that is, that there were standards of morality that God did not create – was as repugnant to the Calvinist conception of God's ...
... morality. To hold that there were standards of right and wrong that existed prior to God's creations – that is, that there were standards of morality that God did not create – was as repugnant to the Calvinist conception of God's ...
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... humans “ to Sin or Misery " before they came " into Being " ( Aphorisms 811 ) . Whichcote and Cudworth based their claim ... morality , for those standards are prior even to God's act of creation . Morality is a necessary feature of real ...
... humans “ to Sin or Misery " before they came " into Being " ( Aphorisms 811 ) . Whichcote and Cudworth based their claim ... morality , for those standards are prior even to God's act of creation . Morality is a necessary feature of real ...
Pàgina 23
... human mind is wholly 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 ...
... human mind is wholly 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 ...
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The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics Michael B. Gill Previsualització no disponible - 2011 |
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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.