Butler on Virtue, Self Interest, and Human Nature

In Paul Bloomfield (ed.), Morality and Self-Interest. New York: Oxford University Press (2008)
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This essay gives a new interpretation of some of the central ethical doctrines of Bishop Butler's Sermons -- in particular, of his claim that a review of the empirical facts of human nature shows that we have "an obligation to the practice of virtue", and of the precise claims that he makes about the relations between morality and self-interest.

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