| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 359 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-349) and index. |
| Contents |
Whichcote and Cudworth -- Shaftesbury -- Hutcheson -- David Hume. |
| Summary |
Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethics, Modern -- 17th century.
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Ethics, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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Ethics. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Ethics, Modern -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gill, Michael B. British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics. Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521852463 9780521852463 (DLC) 2005031228 (OCoLC)62381164 |
| ISBN |
0521852463 (cloth) |
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9780521852463 (cloth) |
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0511225687 (electronic book) |
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9780511225680 (electronic book) |
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9780511226250 (electronic book) |
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051122625X (electronic book) |
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9780511224386 |
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0511224389 |
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9780511499272 (ebook) |
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0511499272 (ebook) |
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1280541326 |
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9781280541322 |
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