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1 online resource |
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Cover; From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions; i. Dates; ii. Gender; iii. Names; iv. Orthography; v. References; vi. Translations; Introduction; Cicero and the 'Science of Man'; Late Hellenistic Ethics and Early Modern Philosophy; A (Brief) Note on Method; 1: The Place of Cicero in Locke's Moral Theology; Introduction: Reconstructing Locke's Cicero; I. Hobbes, Grotius, and Cicero; II. Locke's Early Writings, 1659-1669; 'Two Tracts on Government' (c.1660-1662) |
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Lectures on the Law of Nature (c.1663-1664)'De Arte Medica' (1669) and 'An Essay on Toleration' (1667); III. Hedonism, Social Constraint, and Natural Law, 1669-1690; Locke's 'Three Laws'; Locke, Pierre Nicole, and Social Constraint; From 'Vertue' to 'Duty': Locke on Moral Knowledge; IV. Locke's Paradox: The Moral Consequences of Christianity; The 'Two Provinces of Knowledge'; The Harmony of the 'Three Laws' in Heathen Societies; The Subversion of the 'Three Laws' in Christian Commonwealths; Locke, Stillingfleet, and Immortality; Conclusion; 2: Shaftesbury's Science of Happiness; Introduction |
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Locke, Moral Theology, and the Two TraditionsSelf-Mastery and the Quest for the Summum Bonum; Socratic Philosophy and Christian Theology; Conclusion; 3: Mandeville and the Construction of Morality; Introduction: Mandeville's Intellectual Development, 1714-1732; The Story of Sociability: from the Fable (1714) to Part II (1729); Honour, Christianity, and Moral Obligation; Conclusion; 4: At the Limits of Christian Humanism: Conyers Middleton; Introduction: Placing Middleton; A Letter from Rome (1729); A Letter to Waterland and the Defences (1731-1733) |
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The History of the Life of M.T. Cicero (1741)A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers (1749); Conclusion; 5: From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Hume's Academic Scepticism; Introduction: Cicero in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; I.A 'New Medium': Hume's Early Intellectual Development; II. From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Virtue and Pride; III. Rewriting Cicero for a Christian Age: Hume's Philosophy of Religion; A 'Natural History' of Moral Theology; Hume's Two (Ciceronian) Definitions of 'True Religion'; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; (i) Manuscript and archival sources |
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Bodleian Library, OxfordBritish Library (BL); National Archives, London (TNA); National Library of Scotland (NLS); Suffolk Public Record Office, Bury St Edmunds (SRO); (ii) Printed primary sources; (i) Printed secondary works; (ii) Unpublished theses; Index |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 19, 2019) |
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
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Locke, John, 1632-1704.
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Hume, David, 1711-1776.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
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Locke, John, 1632-1704 fast |
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 fast |
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 fast |
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius fast |
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Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Christian ethics -- History -- 17th century
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Christian ethics -- History -- 18th century
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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Ethics
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Christian ethics
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Great Britain
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0192572520 |
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9780192572530 |
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0192572539 |
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9780191880339 |
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0191880337 |
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9780192572523 |
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