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 7
... thought that God had predetermined that some few people - the elect - would be saved . But the vast majority would be damned . And , crucially , even the elect did not deserve salvation . They just happened to be lucky enough to win ...
... thought that God had predetermined that some few people - the elect - would be saved . But the vast majority would be damned . And , crucially , even the elect did not deserve salvation . They just happened to be lucky enough to win ...
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... thought, even if it did not issue in an external act. One must search narrowly, as a man would do for a piece of gold or a precious jewel which is lost in a great house, or as a man may search for gold in a mine of the earth and but ...
... thought, even if it did not issue in an external act. One must search narrowly, as a man would do for a piece of gold or a precious jewel which is lost in a great house, or as a man may search for gold in a mine of the earth and but ...
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... thought will help us to create a full picture of the development of the Positive Answer in seventeenth - century England . Whichcote's early education was dominated by the writings of Perkins , and he was sent to Emmanuel when he was ...
... thought will help us to create a full picture of the development of the Positive Answer in seventeenth - century England . Whichcote's early education was dominated by the writings of Perkins , and he was sent to Emmanuel when he was ...
Pàgina 14
... thought he was right , he would remain true to his 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 ...
... thought he was right , he would remain true to his 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 ...
Pàgina 15
... thought that placed great importance on self - respect and being able to bear one's own survey - found in Socrates , Plato , Shaftesbury , Butler , Hume , and numerous contemporary thinkers – suffered a break . ― What broke it was the ...
... thought that placed great importance on self - respect and being able to bear one's own survey - found in Socrates , Plato , Shaftesbury , Butler , Hume , and numerous contemporary thinkers – suffered a break . ― What broke it was 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.