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 the 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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A major work in the history of ethics provides the first study of early modern British philosophy in several decades, discerning two distinct traditions feeding into the moral philosophy of the 17th and 18th centuries, based upon their respective definitions of "obligation."
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Ever since Selby-Bigge published his anthology almost a century ago, the term British moralists has come to refer to moral philosophers writing in Britain from roughly the time of Hobbes in the middle of the seventeenth century through that of Bentham at the end of the eighteenth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autonomist internalism, naturalist internalism, conclusive motive, autonomist internalist tradition, instrumental reason view, accountability strand, disobeying conscience, autonomous practical reasoning, last practical judgment, animal free will, independent normative facts, morality obligates, reflex approbation, practical normativity, first virtuous motive, mutually advantageous rules, moral free will, existence internalism, rational intuitionists, normative grip, naturalistic thesis, empirical naturalists, reciprocity thesis, interested obligation, grand determinations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Locke, Cambridge University Press, Ralph Cudworth, Clarendon Press, New York, Oxford University Press, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Hobbes, Damaris Cudworth, David Hume, English Works, Earl of Shaftesbury, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Prisoner's Dilemma, Saint Thomas, Richard Tuck, Samuel Clarke, Critique of Practical Reason, Harvard University Press, Henry Sidgwick, Natural Rights Theories, Types of Ethical Theory, Christine Korsgaard, Collected Works New!
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Ever since Selby-Bigge published his anthology almost a century ago, the term British moralists has come to refer to moral philosophers writing in Britain from roughly the time of Hobbes in the middle of the seventeenth century through that of Bentham at the end of the eighteenth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autonomist internalism, naturalist internalism, conclusive motive, autonomist internalist tradition, instrumental reason view, accountability strand, disobeying conscience, autonomous practical reasoning, last practical judgment, animal free will, independent normative facts, morality obligates, reflex approbation, practical normativity, first virtuous motive, mutually advantageous rules, moral free will, existence internalism, rational intuitionists, normative grip, naturalistic thesis, empirical naturalists, reciprocity thesis, interested obligation, grand determinations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Locke, Cambridge University Press, Ralph Cudworth, Clarendon Press, New York, Oxford University Press, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Hobbes, Damaris Cudworth, David Hume, English Works, Earl of Shaftesbury, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Prisoner's Dilemma, Saint Thomas, Richard Tuck, Samuel Clarke, Critique of Practical Reason, Harvard University Press, Henry Sidgwick, Natural Rights Theories, Types of Ethical Theory, Christine Korsgaard, Collected Works New!
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- Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory (Studies in Moral, Political, & Legal Philosophy) by Gregory S. Kavka on 6 pages
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- Kant's Ethical Thought (Modern European Philosophy) by Allen W. Wood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations by Philip Stratton-Lake in Front Matter, and page 256
- Encyclopedia of Ethics: Second Edition: Volume III: by Lawrence C. Becker on page 313
- Moral Knowledge: Volume 18, Part 2 (Social Philosophy and Policy) (v. 18) by Ellen Frankel Paul in Front Matter
- The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by Jerome B. Schneewind in Back Matter
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