The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics

ISBN: 9780521184403 出版年：2006 页码：369 Michael B Gill Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. Whichcote and cudworth: 1. The negative answer of English Calvinism 2. Whichcote and Cudworth's positive answer 3 Whichcote and Cudworth on religious liberty 4. Rationalism, sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth 5. The emergence of non-Christian ethics Part II. Shaftesbury: 6. Shaftesbury and the Cambridge Platonists 7. Shaftesbury's Inquiry: a misanthropic faith in human nature 8. The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody 9. A philosophical faultline Part III. Hutcheson: 10. Early influences on Francis Hutcheson 11. Hutcheson's attack on egoism 12. Hutcheson's attack on moral rationalism 13. A Copernican positive answer, an attenuated moral realism 14. Explaining away vice Part IV. Hume: 15. David Hume's new 'science of man' 16. Hume's arguments against moral rationalism 17. Hume's associative moral sentiments 18. Hume's progressive view of human nature 19. Comparison and contingency in Hume's moral account 20. What is a Humean account, and what difference does it make?