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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... someone doesn't see his own sin, that merely means he isn't looking hard enough. But how can we find all the sin within ourselves? How can we be sure that we have adequately condemned all the myriad things within ourselves for which ...
... someone doesn't see his own sin, that merely means he isn't looking hard enough. But how can we find all the sin within ourselves? How can we be sure that we have adequately condemned all the myriad things within ourselves for which ...
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... someone else as there was that someone else could learn from him. This willingness to listen and 16 Whichcote and Cudworth.
... someone else as there was that someone else could learn from him. This willingness to listen and 16 Whichcote and Cudworth.
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... someone. But whose candle is our spirit? The Lord's. The Lord, then, is the one who has ignited our spirit, and in so doing He has placed in us the very same light-giving stuff of which He Himself is constituted. So as the four ...
... someone. But whose candle is our spirit? The Lord's. The Lord, then, is the one who has ignited our spirit, and in so doing He has placed in us the very same light-giving stuff of which He Himself is constituted. So as the four ...
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... someone who does what's right and does it cheerfully. There is no conflict within the soul of Socrates. He is self-content. And that is not because he is ignorant of his true nature but rather because he knows himself fully. He also has ...
... someone who does what's right and does it cheerfully. There is no conflict within the soul of Socrates. He is self-content. And that is not because he is ignorant of his true nature but rather because he knows himself fully. He also has ...
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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.