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The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics /

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Title/Author:	The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics // Michael B. Gill.
remainder title:	The British Moralists on Human Nature & the Birth of Secular Ethics
Author:	Gill, Michael B.,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 359 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Ethics, Modern - 17th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499272
ISBN:	9780511499272 (ebook)

The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics /
Gill, Michael B.,

The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics /The British Moralists on Human Nature & the Birth of Secular EthicsMichael B. Gill. - 1 online resource (viii, 359 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Whichcote and Cudworth -- Shaftesbury -- Hutcheson -- David Hume.

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.

ISBN: 9780511499272 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800339
Ethics, Modern
--17th century.

LC Class. No.: BJ602 / .G55 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 170.941

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