Christian Maurer

Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis

Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Do people only act out of self-interest? Or is there a less pessimistic explanation for human behaviour? Maurer delves into early-Enlightenment debates on self-love from both famous and lesser known authors, including Lord Shaftesbury, Bernard Mandeville, Francis Hutcheson, Joseph Butler, Archibald Campbell, David Hume and Adam Smith.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781474477970
• ISBN-10: 1474477976
• Artikelnr.: 59513341

Autorenporträt

Christian Maurer is SNSF Professor in Philosophy at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has studied, taught and held research fellowships in various Universities across Switzerland, Scotland, France and Germany. Maurer's main research areas are in moral and political philosophy. He has worked extensively on the history of British moral philosophy and theology, on pre-Enlightenment Scottish moral philosophy, on the reception of Stoicism, on tolerance and on love.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Shaftesbury on the self-affections and the selfish hypothesis
3. Mandeville: Self-love, self-liking and Augustinian themes
4. Hutcheson on self-love, benevolence, and self-cultivation
5. Butler on self-love as respect of self
6. Campbell on true self-love and virtue
7. Hume, Smith and beyond
8. Conclusions
Bibliography.