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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... philosophical movement that was diametri- cally opposed to Calvinism's fundamental tenets. It was a movement based on a firm and abiding belief in the natural goodness of human beings – in an unabashedly Positive Answer to the Human ...
... philosophical movement that was diametri- cally opposed to Calvinism's fundamental tenets. It was a movement based on a firm and abiding belief in the natural goodness of human beings – in an unabashedly Positive Answer to the Human ...
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... philosophers began to place at the center of their moral views the importance of being able to " bear one's own survey . " Their idea was that persons should conduct themselves so that when they look at their own reasons for action ...
... philosophers began to place at the center of their moral views the importance of being able to " bear one's own survey . " Their idea was that persons should conduct themselves so that when they look at their own reasons for action ...
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... philosophical positions to one Platonic text or another. Cudworth, in particular, would at times have you believe that virtually every element of his philosophy is simply an explication of something that can be found in Plato's ...
... philosophical positions to one Platonic text or another. Cudworth, in particular, would at times have you believe that virtually every element of his philosophy is simply an explication of something that can be found in Plato's ...
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Michael B. Gill. thus helped them forge their philosophical identity not only in the positive sense of defining their ... philosophers follows directly from the mainstream Protestant version of the Negative Answer . If human nature is ...
Michael B. Gill. thus helped them forge their philosophical identity not only in the positive sense of defining their ... philosophers follows directly from the mainstream Protestant version of the Negative Answer . If human nature is ...
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... philosophers and downright alarm at their presence in Whichcote's ser- mons . He urged Whichcote to abandon “ philosophy ” ( a term for the non- Christian thought of Plato and the other Greeks ) and concentrate exclu- sively on ...
... philosophers and downright alarm at their presence in Whichcote's ser- mons . He urged Whichcote to abandon “ philosophy ” ( a term for the non- Christian thought of Plato and the other Greeks ) and concentrate exclu- sively on ...
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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.