The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics / Michael B. Gill.
By: Gill, Michael B
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TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: viii, 359 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521852463; 9780521852463Subject(s): Ethics, Modern -- 17th century | Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century | Ethics, Modern -- 18th century | Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 170.941 LOC classification: BJ602 | .G55 2006Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information
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Review: "Michael Gill uncovers the historical roots of naturalistic, secular ethics, showing how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries disengaged ethical thinking first from Christian ideas and then from theistic commitments altogether. He also shows how the British moralists completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy, a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human nature to thinking of it as part of human nature itself."--Jacket.
Whichcote and Cudworth -- Shaftesbury -- Hutcheson -- David Hume.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-349) and index.
Whichcote and Cudworth -- Shaftesbury -- Hutcheson -- David Hume.
"Michael Gill uncovers the historical roots of naturalistic, secular ethics, showing how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries disengaged ethical thinking first from Christian ideas and then from theistic commitments altogether. He also shows how the British moralists completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy, a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human nature to thinking of it as part of human nature itself."--Jacket.
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