Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 2, Shaftesbury to Hume - A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780

Zusammenfassung This volume completes a widely acclaimed exploration of religion and ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It investigates attempts to separate ethics from religion! and instead to locate the morals in human nature. Meticulously researched and accessibly written! this study makes a vital contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The true religion of nature: the freethinkers and their opponents; 2. Shaftesbury and the defence of natural affection; 3. Defining the moral faculty: Hutcheson, Butler, and Price; 4. The ethics of sentiment and the religious hypothesis: Hume and his critics; 5. The conflict of languages in the later eighteenth century.

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• Authors: Isabel Rivers, Isabel (St Hugh''s College Rivers
• Assisted by: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor), John J. Richetti (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521021357
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02135-7
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies