Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

God, Self, and Other

Heydt, Colin (University of South Florida)

Cambridge University Press

06/2019

297

Mole

Inglês

9781108431316

15 a 20 dias

This book takes a new approach to the history of moral philosophy between 1670 and 1790, focusing on the content of morality, including our moral relations to God, ourselves, and others. It explores topics including natural rights and religious and secular morality, and engages with philosophers including Locke, Hume, and Smith.
Part I. Foundations: 1. 'Morality not in accordance with virtues but in accordance with duties': the Pufendorfian shift in moral philosophy; 2. The structure of practical ethics: duty and virtue; 3. The structure of practical ethics: duty and right; Part II. Relations to God: 4. Duties to God, revelation, and morality's history; 5. Breaking with convention: Hume, Smith, moral philosophy, and the God of natural religion; Part III. Relations to Self: 6. Moral relations to self and the significance of self-harm; 7. Anthropological optimism, pessimism, and the scope of self-cultivation; Part IV. Relations to Others: 8. Relating to others: natural rights and community; 9. Why not polygamy? Natural law and the family; 10. Political jurisprudence and its limits.
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