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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... principles Perkins espoused. A work of Perkins that offers a clear view of how Calvinist principles would have been instilled in a seventeenth-century English household is his catechism, “Foundation of Christian Religion Gathered into ...
... principles Perkins espoused. A work of Perkins that offers a clear view of how Calvinist principles would have been instilled in a seventeenth-century English household is his catechism, “Foundation of Christian Religion Gathered into ...
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... principles in the face of even the most powerful opposition , showing a willingness to defend his position “ against the whole world . ” He was secure enough both to question his own beliefs whenever anyone raised reasonable doubts ...
... principles in the face of even the most powerful opposition , showing a willingness to defend his position “ against the whole world . ” He was secure enough both to question his own beliefs whenever anyone raised reasonable doubts ...
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... principles of their own soul to achieve righteousness . This is as clear a statement of an anti - Calvinist Positive Answer that one could ever hope to find . And in making this statement , Whichcote both revived the Platonic idea that ...
... principles of their own soul to achieve righteousness . This is as clear a statement of an anti - Calvinist Positive Answer that one could ever hope to find . And in making this statement , Whichcote both revived the Platonic idea that ...
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... principles of his nature he would live in accord with true morality and religion . And they all set out together , guided by their shared commitment to the Positive Answer , to forge a new moral and religious path . It must have been an ...
... principles of his nature he would live in accord with true morality and religion . And they all set out together , guided by their shared commitment to the Positive Answer , to forge a new moral and religious path . It must have been an ...
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... Principle within him " ( Patrides 1970 , 159 ) . But such confidence in the guidance of each person's own soul requires an interpretation of Psalms 20:27 very different from Whichcote and Cudworth's Positive Answer 19.
... Principle within him " ( Patrides 1970 , 159 ) . But such confidence in the guidance of each person's own soul requires an interpretation of Psalms 20:27 very different from Whichcote and Cudworth's Positive Answer 19.
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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.