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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... sermons at Trinity Church for nearly twenty years, and his effectiveness as a public speaker must have been greatly enhanced by his uncanny ability to express his ideas in a simple, concise, memorable manner (Roberts 1968, 2). One ...
... sermons at Trinity Church for nearly twenty years, and his effectiveness as a public speaker must have been greatly enhanced by his uncanny ability to express his ideas in a simple, concise, memorable manner (Roberts 1968, 2). One ...
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... sermons , and their interpretation of it captures well the spirit of their Positive Answer . To appreciate the novelty and boldness of their interpretation of Psalms 20:27 , we need only to set it against the backdrop of the mainstream ...
... sermons , and their interpretation of it captures well the spirit of their Positive Answer . To appreciate the novelty and boldness of their interpretation of Psalms 20:27 , we need only to set it against the backdrop of the mainstream ...
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... sermons: All misery arises out of ourselves. It is a most gross mistake; and men are of dull and stupid spirits, who think that that state which we call hell is an incommodious place only, and that God by his sovereignty throws men ...
... sermons: All misery arises out of ourselves. It is a most gross mistake; and men are of dull and stupid spirits, who think that that state which we call hell is an incommodious place only, and that God by his sovereignty throws men ...
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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.