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The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought'

1640-1740

by Ann Arbor) Stephen Darwall (university Of Michigan

  • Hardback
  • 372 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

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For scholars and students of moral philosophy

Clarifies the conflict between two moral traditions

You will gain insights into ethical thought history

This book explores the evolution of moral philosophy in Britain from 1640 to 1740.

This book is a major work in the history of ethics, and provides the first study of early modern British philosophy in several decades. Professor Darwall discerns two distinct traditions feeding into the moral philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, there is the empirical, naturalist tradition, comprising Hobbes, Locke, Cumberland, Hutcheson, and Hume, which argues that obligation is the practical force that empirical discoveries acquire in the process of deliberation. On the other hand, there is a group including Cudworth, Shaftesbury, Butler, and in some moments Locke, which views obligation as inconceivable without autonomy and which seeks to develop a theory of the will as self-determining.
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  • Title

    The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought'

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    May 1995

  • Weight

    713g

  • Page Count

    372

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521451673

  • ISBN-10

    0521451671

  • Eden Code

    4575110