From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy
Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume
(Sprache: Englisch)
Tim Stuart-Buttle offers a fresh view of British moral philosophy in the 17th and early 18th centuries. In this period of remarkable innovation, philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Hume combined critique of the role of Christianity in moral thought with...
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Tim Stuart-Buttle offers a fresh view of British moral philosophy in the 17th and early 18th centuries. In this period of remarkable innovation, philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Hume combined critique of the role of Christianity in moral thought with reconsideration of the legacy of the classical tradition of academic scepticism.
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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and sustaining mechanisms of civil society. Their insights continue to inform how political and moral theorists think about the world in which we live. From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy reconstructs a debate which preoccupied contemporaries but which seems arcane to us today. It concerned the relationship between reason and revelation as the two sources of mankind's knowledge, particularly in the ethical realm: to what extent, they asked, could reason alone discover the content and obligatory character of morality? This was held to be a historical, rather than a merely theoretical question: had the philosophers of pre-Christian antiquity, ignorant of Christ, been able satisfactorily to explain the moral universe? What role had natural theology played in their ethical theories - and was it consistent with the teachings delivered by revelation? Much recent scholarship has drawn attention to the early-modern interest in two late Hellenistic philosophical traditions - Stoicism and Epicureanism. Yet in the English context, three figures above all - John Locke, Conyers Middleton, and David Hume - quite deliberately and explicitly identified their approaches with Cicero as the representative of an alternative philosophical tradition, critical of both the Stoic and the Epicurean: academic scepticism. All argued that Cicero provided a means of addressing what they considered to be the most pressing question facing contemporary philosophy: the relationship between moral philosophy and moral theology.
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- Introduction
- 1: The Place of Cicero in Locke's Moral Theology
- 2: Shaftesbury's Science of Happiness
- 3: Mandeville and the Construction of Morality
- 4: At the Limits of Christian Humanism: Conyers Middleton
- 5: From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Hume's Academic Scepticism
- Epigraph
Autoren-Porträt von Tim Stuart-Buttle
Tim Stuart-Buttle is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York and a member of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique. Prior to this, he held a postdoctoral research associateship at the University of Cambridge. He has published articles in journals including Locke Studies, History of Political Thought and Political Theory, and essays in collected volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon (Cambridge 2018). He is the co-editor, with Subha Mukherji, of Literature, Belief, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Knowing Faith (Palgrave Macmillan 2018).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tim Stuart-Buttle
- 2019, 288 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198835582
- ISBN-13: 9780198835585
Sprache:
Englisch
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From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy is an excellent piece of work. The main narrative is compelling, and StuartButtle clarifies and enriches our understanding of the period from Locke to Hume. No scholar of the subject matter should ignore his achievement. Eric Entrican Wilson, Georgia State University, Journal of British Studies 61
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