Fellow-feeling and the moral life
By: Joseph Duke FiIonowicz.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521888714
Subjects: Hutcheson, Francis, -- 1694-1746; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, -- Earl of, -- 1671-1713; Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fellow-feeling and ethical theory : the British sentimentalists; title: The school of sentiment; title: Conceptions of the moral; title: Morality in the open street; title: A formidable ghost : the sage of Malmesbury; title: Moral theory and moral advice; title: Designs of remaining chapters; title: Ethical sentimentalism revisited; title: Statement of the argument; title: Ethical rationalism; title: Shaftesbury's ethical sentimentalism; title: Sentimentalism and rationalism; title: Objections to sentimentalism; title: Shaftesbury's ethical system; title: Shaftesbury as moralist; title: The good; title: Obligation; title: Disinterestedness; title: Why should i be moral?; title: Shaftesbury's moral sense; title: The limits of Shaftesburyan sentimentalism; title: Hutcheson's moral sense; title: A sad tale; title: Hutcheson's moral sense; title: Nave questions concerning moral sense; title: What do we perceive by moral sense?; title: Received views; title: Defining Hutcheson's moral "realism"; title: Charting the return journey; title: Hutcheson's "offensive" argument against ethical rationalism; title: C.D. Broad's defense of moral sense theories in ethics; title: "Some reflections"; title: The subjective theory; title: Analysis part 1: why moral sense theory is sentimentalistic; title: Analysis part 2: subjectivism versus naturalism, or, are ethical propositions; title: Statistical?; title: Broad's defense, (almost) concluded; title: Broad's offensive argument against ethical rationalism; title: What is innate in moral sense?; title: Moral sense theory : hutcheson, broad and beyond; title: James W. Wilson's the moral sense; title: How do very young children come to approve (and disapprove) occultism versus obscurantism?; title: The "hyperoffensive" argument against ethical rationalism; title: Ideas without will; title: Postscript: Hume, Smith, and the end of the sentimental school.