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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... reciting their prayers , taking the sacraments , and refraining from " gross and palpable sins ” ( Perkins 286 ) . And they think that these activities are sufficient to put The Negative Answer of English Calvinism 9.
... reciting their prayers , taking the sacraments , and refraining from " gross and palpable sins ” ( Perkins 286 ) . And they think that these activities are sufficient to put The Negative Answer of English Calvinism 9.
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Michael B. Gill. And they think that these activities are sufficient to put themselves in “God's favor.” But they are actually dreadfully mistaken. For true repen- tance involves something much more difficult than simply going through ...
Michael B. Gill. And they think that these activities are sufficient to put themselves in “God's favor.” But they are actually dreadfully mistaken. For true repen- tance involves something much more difficult than simply going through ...
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... sufficient ground on which to build a new theology. Far from denigrating God, such confidence in their own moral judgment, as Whichcote and Cudworth saw it, was positively rev- erential, as the mind of man is a candle of the Lord. What ...
... sufficient ground on which to build a new theology. Far from denigrating God, such confidence in their own moral judgment, as Whichcote and Cudworth saw it, was positively rev- erential, as the mind of man is a candle of the Lord. What ...
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... sufficient motivation to conduct themselves righteously, whereas Calvinism implied that the prospect of externally imposed reward and punishment (i.e., heaven and hell as places) was a necessary motivat- ing tool. Secondly, Whichcote ...
... sufficient motivation to conduct themselves righteously, whereas Calvinism implied that the prospect of externally imposed reward and punishment (i.e., heaven and hell as places) was a necessary motivat- ing tool. Secondly, Whichcote ...
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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.