The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics
By: Michael B. Gill.
Publisher: New York; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Ethics, Modern -- 17th century; Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Ethics, Modern -- 18th century; Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Whichcote and Cudworth; title: Shaftesbury; title: Hutcheson; title: Hume.