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
... religion and morality is an individual's internal state of mind . Unfortunately , most people ( according to the English Calvinists ) do not cultivate in themselves the proper internal state . They perform the req- uisite external ...
... religion and morality is an individual's internal state of mind . Unfortunately , most people ( according to the English Calvinists ) do not cultivate in themselves the proper internal state . They perform the req- uisite external ...
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... religion of Cudworth's father thus consisted of two central notions: a Negative Answer that proclaimed that everyone is fundamentally evil, cor- rupt, and sinful, and a fatalism that proclaimed that everyone's eternal fate has been ...
... religion of Cudworth's father thus consisted of two central notions: a Negative Answer that proclaimed that everyone is fundamentally evil, cor- rupt, and sinful, and a fatalism that proclaimed that everyone's eternal fate has been ...
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... religious groups had for decades been advancing various ver- sions of the Positive Answer , and a number of independent thinkers of the 1630s ( dubbed the " Great Tew Circle " ) proposed ideas somewhat similar to Whichcote's.3 It is ...
... religious groups had for decades been advancing various ver- sions of the Positive Answer , and a number of independent thinkers of the 1630s ( dubbed the " Great Tew Circle " ) proposed ideas somewhat similar to Whichcote's.3 It is ...
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... religion truly consists of . “ Religion doth lay the Foundation of mental Peace , Satisfaction , and Content " ( Aphorisms 949 ) . It gives us " Serenity of Mind , and Calmness of Thought " ( Aphorisms 280 ) and makes our life “ all of ...
... religion truly consists of . “ Religion doth lay the Foundation of mental Peace , Satisfaction , and Content " ( Aphorisms 949 ) . It gives us " Serenity of Mind , and Calmness of Thought " ( Aphorisms 280 ) and makes our life “ all of ...
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... religion and morality lay within each individual - that true religion and morality grow out of inward examination . But when Whichcote looked within himself , he found not the intractable sin the Calvinists claimed must be there but the ...
... religion and morality lay within each individual - that true religion and morality grow out of inward examination . But when Whichcote looked within himself , he found not the intractable sin the Calvinists claimed must be there but the ...
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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.