The British Moralists On Human Nature And The Birth Of Secular Ethics
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The British Moralists On Human Nature And The Birth Of Secular Ethics
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Author : Michael B. Gill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-31
The British Moralists On Human Nature And The Birth Of Secular Ethics written by Michael B. Gill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-31 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Humean Moral Pluralism
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Author : Michael B. Gill
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-06-12
Humean Moral Pluralism written by Michael B. Gill and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Philosophy categories.
Michael B. Gill offers an original account of Humean moral pluralism. Moral pluralism is the view that there are different ultimate moral reasons for action, that those different reasons can sometimes come into conflict with each other, and that there exist no invariable ordering principles that tell us how to resolve such conflicts. If moral pluralism is true, we will at times have to act on moral decisions for which we can give no fully principled justification. Humeanism is the view that our moral judgments are based on our sentiments, that reason alone could not have given rise to our moral judgments, and that there are no mind-independent moral properties for our moral judgments to track. In this book, Gill shows that the combination of these two views produces a more accurate account of our moral experiences than the monistic, rationalist, and non-naturalist alternatives. He elucidates the historical origins of the Humean pluralist position in the works of David Hume, Adam Smith, and their eighteenth century contemporaries, and explains how recent work in moral psychology has advanced this position. And he argues for the position's superiority to the non-naturalist pluralism of W. D. Ross and the monism of Kantianism and consequentialism. The pluralist account of the content of morality has been traditionally perceived as belonging with non-naturalist intuitionism. The Humean sentimentalist account of morality has been traditionally perceived as not belonging with any view of morality's content at all. Humean Moral Pluralism explodes both those perceptions. It shows that pluralism and Humeanism belong together, and that they make a philosophically powerful couple.
British Moralists 1650 1800 Hume
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Author : David Daiches Raphael
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 1991-01-01
British Moralists 1650 1800 Hume written by David Daiches Raphael and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
"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
A Philosophy Of Beauty
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Author : Michael B. Gill
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
A Philosophy Of Beauty written by Michael B. Gill and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophy At the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English. It revolutionized Western philosophy. In A Philosophy of Beauty, Michael Gill presents an engaging account of how Shaftesbury’s thought profoundly shaped modern ideas of nature, religion, morality, and art—and why, despite its long neglect, it remains compelling today. Before Shaftesbury’s magnum opus, Charactersticks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), it was common to see wilderness as ugly, to associate religion with fear and morality with unpleasant restriction, and to dismiss art as trivial or even corrupting. But Shaftesbury argued that nature, religion, virtue, and art can all be truly beautiful, and that cherishing and cultivating beauty is what makes life worth living. And, as Gill shows, this view had a huge impact on the development of natural religion, moral sense theory, aesthetics, and environmentalism. Combining captivating historical details and flashes of humor, A Philosophy of Beauty not only rediscovers and illuminates a fascinating philosopher but also offers an inspiring reflection about the role beauty can play in our lives.
The British Moralists And The Internal Ought
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Author : Stephen L. Darwall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-04-28
The British Moralists And The Internal Ought written by Stephen L. Darwall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-28 with History categories.
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.
British Moralists 1650 1800 Hobbes Gay
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Author : David Daiches Raphael
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1969
British Moralists 1650 1800 Hobbes Gay written by David Daiches Raphael and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
British Moralists
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Author : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
British Moralists written by Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Ethics categories.
British Moralists Being Selections From Writers Principally Of The Eighteenth Century Samuel Clarke Discourse Upon Natural Religion Balguy Foundation Of Moral Goodness Part I Richard Price Review Of The Principal Questions In Morals Appendix Balguy Foundation Of Moral Goodness Part Ii Brown Essays On The Characteristics Essay Ii On The Motives Of Virtue John Clarke Of Hull Foundation Of Morality In Theory And Practice Cudworth Treatise Concerning Eternal And Immutable Morality John Gay Fundamental Principle Of Virtue Or Morality Hobbes Leviathan Of Human Nature Kames Essays On The Principles Of Morality And Natural Religion Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding Mandeville Enquiry Into The Origin Of Moral Virtue Paly Principles Of Moral And Political Philosophy Wollaston Religion Of Nature Delineated
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Author : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
British Moralists Being Selections From Writers Principally Of The Eighteenth Century Samuel Clarke Discourse Upon Natural Religion Balguy Foundation Of Moral Goodness Part I Richard Price Review Of The Principal Questions In Morals Appendix Balguy Foundation Of Moral Goodness Part Ii Brown Essays On The Characteristics Essay Ii On The Motives Of Virtue John Clarke Of Hull Foundation Of Morality In Theory And Practice Cudworth Treatise Concerning Eternal And Immutable Morality John Gay Fundamental Principle Of Virtue Or Morality Hobbes Leviathan Of Human Nature Kames Essays On The Principles Of Morality And Natural Religion Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding Mandeville Enquiry Into The Origin Of Moral Virtue Paly Principles Of Moral And Political Philosophy Wollaston Religion Of Nature Delineated written by Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Ethics categories.
British Moralists
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Author : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
British Moralists written by Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Ethics categories.
British Moralists 1650 1800 Hobbes
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Author : David Daiches Raphael
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 1991-01-01
British Moralists 1650 1800 Hobbes written by David Daiches Raphael and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
"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