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
... one's own corrup- tion . This emphasis on an internal sense or feeling will be highly significant in our later discussion . For we will see that while Whichcote and Cudworth eventually repudiated the Calvinist belief in inherent and ...
... one's own corrup- tion . This emphasis on an internal sense or feeling will be highly significant in our later discussion . For we will see that while Whichcote and Cudworth eventually repudiated the Calvinist belief in inherent and ...
Pàgina 10
... one's own sinfulness. The very fact that most people are sanguine about the state of their soul is (according to the English Calvinists) conclusive evidence of the superficial- ity of their own self-survey. For the soul of each of us is ...
... one's own sinfulness. The very fact that most people are sanguine about the state of their soul is (according to the English Calvinists) conclusive evidence of the superficial- ity of their own self-survey. For the soul of each of us is ...
Pàgina 11
... one's soul is a “sea of corruption.” But God decided to bestow His grace on some people anyway. Why did God elect the people He did and damn the rest? It is impossible for us to know. God's reasons are not for us to under- stand. We do ...
... one's soul is a “sea of corruption.” But God decided to bestow His grace on some people anyway. Why did God elect the people He did and damn the rest? It is impossible for us to know. God's reasons are not for us to under- stand. We do ...
Pàgina 14
... one's own survey . " Their idea was that persons should conduct themselves so that when they look at their own reasons for action , they are content with what they see . The Third Earl of Shaftesbury ( as we will see in Chapter 9 ) said ...
... one's own survey . " Their idea was that persons should conduct themselves so that when they look at their own reasons for action , they are content with what they see . The Third Earl of Shaftesbury ( as we will see in Chapter 9 ) said ...
Pàgina 15
... one's parts “ harmonize ” with each other , or of one's 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 ...
... one's parts “ harmonize ” with each other , or of one's 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 ...
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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.