British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics

Name: British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics
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ISBN: 9780521184403

ISBN-10: 0521184401

ISBN-13: 9780521184403

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael B. Gill

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List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.188



Introduction



Whichcote and cudworth:



The negative answer of English Calvinism



Whichcote and Cudworth's positive answer



Whichcote and Cudworth on religious liberty



Rationalism, sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth



The emergence of non-Christian ethics



Shaftesbury:



Shaftesbury and the Cambridge Platonists



Shaftesbury's Inquiry: a misanthropic faith in human nature



The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody



A philosophical faultline



Hutcheson:



Early influences on Francis Hutcheson



Hutcheson's attack on egoism



Hutcheson's attack on moral rationalism



A Copernican positive answer, an attenuated moral realism



Explaining away vice



Hume:



David Hume's new 'science of man'



Hume's arguments against moral rationalism



Hume's associative moral sentiments



Hume's progressive view of human nature



Comparison and contingency in Hume's moral account



What is a Humean account, and what difference does it make?