UID:
almafu_9959240051902883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 359 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-16540-7
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1-280-54132-6
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0-511-22568-7
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0-511-22438-9
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0-511-22625-X
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0-511-32285-2
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0-511-49927-2
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0-511-22505-9
Content:
Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, in this 2006 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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Whichcote and Cudworth -- Shaftesbury -- Hutcheson -- David Hume.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-18440-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-85246-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499272
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