The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics
Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, this volume shows how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy, effecting a shift from considering morality as independent of human nature to considering it as part of human nature itself.
History
VIII, 359 p. ; 24 cm
9780521852463, 0521852463
150162872
Whichcote and Cudworth
Shaftesbury
Hutcheson
Hume