British Moralists
Author | : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael B. Gill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2006-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139458299 |
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.
Author | : David Daiches Raphael |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780872201163 |
"These two attractive volumes replace Selby-Bigge's well-known collection. . . . The present selection is superior in several respects. It is more inclusive, now that Hume, Hartley, Reid, and Cumberland are put in. . . . It is better arranged, the writers now appearing in chronological order. And besides reediting of the texts, the analytical index has been enormously enlarged and improved. . . . The book will be much more useful to students than its predecessor." -- British Book News
Author | : Stephen L. Darwall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1995-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521457828 |
This book is a major work in the history of ethics, and provides the first study of early modern British philosophy in several decades. Professor Darwall discerns two distinct traditions feeding into the moral philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, there is the empirical, naturalist tradition, comprising Hobbes, Locke, Cumberland, Hutcheson, and Hume, which argues that obligation is the practical force that empirical discoveries acquire in the process of deliberation. On the other hand, there is a group including Cudworth, Shaftesbury, Butler, and in some moments Locke, which views obligation as inconceivable without autonomy and which seeks to develop a theory of the will as self-determining.
Author | : David Daiches Raphael |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780872201170 |
"These two attractive volumes replace Selby-Bigge's well-known collection. . . . The present selection is superior in several respects. It is more inclusive, now that Hume, Hartley, Reid, and Cumberland are put in. . . . It is better arranged, the writers now appearing in chronological order. And besides reediting of the texts, the analytical index has been enormously enlarged and improved. . . . The book will be much more useful to students than its predecessor." -- British Book News
Author | : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Daiches Raphael |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roger Crisp |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2019-08-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019257695X |
Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being) and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of each to the other. Themes ran through many of these writers: psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and - after Hobbes - the acceptance of self-standing moral reasons. But there are exceptions, and even those taking the standard views adopt them for very different reasons and express them in various ways. As the ancients tended to believe that virtue and happiness largely coincide, so these modern authors are inclined to accept posthumous reward and punishment. Both positions sit uneasily with the common-sense idea that a person can truly sacrifice their own good for the sake of morality or for others. Roger Crisp shows that David Hume - a hedonist whose ethics made no appeal to the afterlife - was the first major British moralist to allow for, indeed to recommend, such self-sacrifice. Morality and well-being of course remain central to modern ethics, and Crisp demonstrates how much there is to learn from this remarkable group of philosophers.