Colin Heydt

Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

God, Self, and Other

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes a new approach to the history of moral philosophy between 1670 and 1790, focusing on the content of morality, including our moral relations to God, ourselves, and others. It explores topics including natural rights and religious and secular morality, and engages with philosophers including Locke, Hume, and Smith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 297
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781108431316
• ISBN-10: 1108431313
• Artikelnr.: 56973190

Autorenporträt

Colin Heydt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. His work has been published in numerous journals and he is the author of Rethinking Mill's Ethics: Character and Aesthetic Education (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Foundations: 1. 'Morality not in accordance with virtues but in
accordance with duties': the Pufendorfian shift in moral philosophy; 2. The
structure of practical ethics: duty and virtue; 3. The structure of
practical ethics: duty and right; Part II. Relations to God: 4. Duties to
God, revelation, and morality's history; 5. Breaking with convention: Hume,
Smith, moral philosophy, and the God of natural religion; Part III.
Relations to Self: 6. Moral relations to self and the significance of
self-harm; 7. Anthropological optimism, pessimism, and the scope of
self-cultivation; Part IV. Relations to Others: 8. Relating to others:
natural rights and community; 9. Why not polygamy? Natural law and the
family; 10. Political jurisprudence and its limits.