Colin Heydt

Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (eBook, ePUB)

God, Self, and Other

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The long eighteenth century is a crucial period in the history of ethics, when our moral relations to God, ourselves and others were minutely examined and our duties, rights and virtues systematically and powerfully presented. Colin Heydt charts the history of practical morality - what we ought to do and to be - from the 1670s, when practical ethics arising from Protestant natural law gained an institutional foothold in England, to early British responses to the French Revolution around 1790. He examines the conventional philosophical positions concerning the content of morality, and utilizes those conventions to reinterpret the work of key figures including Locke, Hume, and Smith. Situating these positions in their thematic and historical contexts, he shows how studying them challenges our assumptions about the originality, intended audience, and aims of philosophical argument during this period. His rich and readable book will appeal to a range of scholars and students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108369190
• Artikelnr.: 50520588

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.