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9781108363327
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The long eighteenth century is a crucial period in the history of ethics, when our moral relations to God, ourselves and others were minutely examined and our duties, rights and virtues systematically and powerfully presented. Colin Heydt charts the history of practical morality - what we ought to do and to be - from the 1670s, when practical ethics arising from Protestant natural law gained an institutional foothold in England, to early British responses to the French Revolution around 1790. He examines the conventional philosophical positions concerning the content of morality, and utilizes those conventions to reinterpret the work of key figures including Locke, Hume, and Smith. Situating these positions in their thematic and historical contexts, he shows how studying them challenges our assumptions about the originality, intended audience, and aims of philosophical argument during this period. His rich and readable book will appeal to a range of scholars and students
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Foundations -- Morality not in accordance with virtues but in accordance with duties: the Pufendorfian shift in moral philosophy -- The structure of practical ethics: duty and virtue -- The structure of practical ethics: duty and right -- Relations to God -- Duties to God, revelation, and morality's history -- Breaking with convention: Hume, Smith, moral philosophy, and the God of natural religion -- Relations to self -- Moral relations to self and the significance of self-harm -- Anthropological optimism, pessimism, and the scope of self-cultivation -- Relations to others -- Relating to others: natural rights and community -- Why not polygamy? Natural law and the family -- Political jurisprudence and its limits
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108421096
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108431316
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108421096
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781108363327
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