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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... truth of conscience , ” and “ self - justification ” ( Aphorisms 391 and 202 ) ; you can be happy with yourself . And it is just such a life that you ought to lead . As Whichcote rhetorically asks , “ Why should one deal roughly with ...
... truth of conscience , ” and “ self - justification ” ( Aphorisms 391 and 202 ) ; you can be happy with yourself . And it is just such a life that you ought to lead . As Whichcote rhetorically asks , “ Why should one deal roughly with ...
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... truth , have gone over to the camp of the Remonstrants " ( Cassirer 1953 , 79 ; cf. 122–3 ) . Whichcote made the same point when he claimed that it was “ Blasphemy ” to say that God had “ determined ” humans “ to Sin or Misery " before ...
... truth , have gone over to the camp of the Remonstrants " ( Cassirer 1953 , 79 ; cf. 122–3 ) . Whichcote made the same point when he claimed that it was “ Blasphemy ” to say that God had “ determined ” humans “ to Sin or Misery " before ...
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... truths , whether they have had the benefit of scripture or not . With this context in mind , we can now see that the Cambridge Platonists ' habit of quoting Plato was controversial , even distinct from the content of any of those ...
... truths , whether they have had the benefit of scripture or not . With this context in mind , we can now see that the Cambridge Platonists ' habit of quoting Plato was controversial , even distinct from the content of any of those ...
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... truth, holiness and goodness; and we do actually in this life instate ourselves in the possession of one or other of them. (Commons 394) So while the Calvinists thundered on about blissful and tormented afterlives, Whichcote and ...
... truth, holiness and goodness; and we do actually in this life instate ourselves in the possession of one or other of them. (Commons 394) So while the Calvinists thundered on about blissful and tormented afterlives, Whichcote and ...
Pàgina 32
... Truth” (Aphorisms 499–500). This call for liberty of worship – it is worth emphasizing again – was the furthest thing from a bromide in the 1640s. Most Englishmen at the time thought it an exceedingly dangerous idea, one that would lead ...
... Truth” (Aphorisms 499–500). This call for liberty of worship – it is worth emphasizing again – was the furthest thing from a bromide in the 1640s. Most Englishmen at the time thought it an exceedingly dangerous idea, one that would lead ...
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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.