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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... understanding. And (as we will see in the rest of this chapter) real understanding – not mere acquiescence – is the core of true religion and morality. Whichcote's clear and straightforward delivery made his preaching much beloved at ...
... understanding. And (as we will see in the rest of this chapter) real understanding – not mere acquiescence – is the core of true religion and morality. Whichcote's clear and straightforward delivery made his preaching much beloved at ...
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... understanding , supposed to compare a candle's weak and flickering , uncertain flame to the brilliance of the sun , source of all light . In making this comparison , we come to realize how profoundly inadequate a candle really is how ...
... understanding , supposed to compare a candle's weak and flickering , uncertain flame to the brilliance of the sun , source of all light . In making this comparison , we come to realize how profoundly inadequate a candle really is how ...
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... understanding of heaven and hell . In opposition to the prevailing Calvinist approach , Whichcote and Cudworth argued that ministers ought not to describe heaven as “ a place of rest and content " and hell as “ a place of fire and ...
... understanding of heaven and hell . In opposition to the prevailing Calvinist approach , Whichcote and Cudworth argued that ministers ought not to describe heaven as “ a place of rest and content " and hell as “ a place of fire and ...
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... understanding of the relationship between God and humans is fun- damental to the internal orientation of Whichcote and Cudworth's phi- losophy. But it also makes it difficult to place their philosophy into the internalist–externalist ...
... understanding of the relationship between God and humans is fun- damental to the internal orientation of Whichcote and Cudworth's phi- losophy. But it also makes it difficult to place their philosophy into the internalist–externalist ...
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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.