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British Moralists, Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century

L. A. Selby-Bigge

Palala Press (1965)

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From Cudworth to Hume: Cambridge Platonism and the Scottish Enlightenment.Sarah Hutton - 2012 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42 (S1):8-26.details This paper argues that the Cambridge Platonists had stronger philosophical links to Scottish moral philosophy than the received history allows. Building on the work of Michael Gill who has demonstrated links between ethical thought of More, Cudworth and Smith and moral sentimentalism, I outline some links between the Cambridge Platonists and Scottish thinkers in both the seventeenth century and the eighteenth century. I then discuss Hume's knowledge of Cudworth, in Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, The (...) 17th/18th Century British Philosophy, Misc in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Cambridge Platonism in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Hume: Intellectual Context in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Direct download (3 more) Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
The empathic emotions and self-love in Bishop Joseph Butler and the neurosciences.Arthur J. Dyck & Carlos Padilla - 2009 - Journal of Religious Ethics 37 (4):577-612.details In Joseph Butler, we have an account of human beings as moral beings that is, as this essay demonstrates, being supported by the recently emerging findings of the neurosciences. This applies particularly to Butler's portrayal of our empathic emotions. Butler discovered their moral significance for motivating and guiding moral decisions and actions before the neurosciences did. Butler has, in essence, added a sixth sense to our five senses: this is the moral sense by means of which we perceive what we (...) Joseph Butler in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Moral Emotion in Normative Ethics Neuroscience of Ethics in Normative Ethics Religious Ethics in Normative Ethics Direct download (4 more) Export citation Bookmark
The Problem of Partiality in 18th century British Moral Philosophy.Getty L. Lustila - 2019 - Dissertation, Boston Universitydetails The dissertation traces the development of what I call “the problem of partiality” through the work of certain key figures in the British Moralist tradition: John Locke, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Anthony Ashley Cooper (the Third Earl of Shaftesbury), Francis Hutcheson, John Gay, David Hume, Joseph Butler, and Adam Smith. On the one hand, we are committed to impartiality as a constitutive norm of moral judgment and conduct. On the other hand, we are committed to the idea that it is permissible, (...) Adam Smith in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Catharine Trotter Cockburn in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Earl of Shaftesbury in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Francis Hutcheson in 17th/18th Century Philosophy History of Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous Hume and Other Philosophers in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Hume: Value Theory in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Joseph Butler in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Locke: Ethics, Misc in 17th/18th Century Philosophy Moral Psychology in Normative Ethics Direct download (2 more) Export citation Bookmark

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