Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Carey is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Klappentext A major reappraisal of enlightenment debates about cultural diversity, and their current resonance. Zusammenfassung Are human beings linked by a common nature! or are they fragmented by different cultural practices and values? These fundamental moral questions were debated in the Enlightenment by Locke! Shaftesbury! and Hutcheson. Daniel Carey explores the relationship between these founding arguments and contemporary disputes over cultural diversity and multiculturalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Locke, diversity, and the natural history of man; 2. The uses of diversity: Locke's reply to Stoicism; 3. Locke's anthropology: travel, innateness, and the exercise of reason; 4. Contesting diversity: Shaftesbury's Reply to Locke; 5. Method, moral sense, and the problem of diversity: Francis Hutcheson and the Scottish Enlightenment; 6. Conclusion: the future of diversity; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Carey, Dr. Daniel Carey
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521117463
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11746-3
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education