Title Reason, grace and sentiment : a study of the language of religion and ethics in england, 1660- 1780

Published Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (volumes) Series Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought ; v. 37 Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The true religion of nature: the freethinkers and their opponents; 2 Shaftesbury and the defence of natural affection; 3 Defining the moral faculty: Hutcheson, Butler, and Price; 4 The ethics of sentiment and the religious hypothesis: Hume and his critics; 5 The conflict of languages in the later eighteenth century; Bibliography; Index Summary This volume completes a widely-acclaimed exploration of religion and ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It investigates attempts to separate ethics from religion, and instead to locate the morals in human nature. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, this study makes a vital contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century thought Notes V. 2 Subject Christian ethics -- England -- History -- 17th century Christian ethics -- England -- History -- 18th century English language -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Religious thought -- England -- 17th century Religious thought -- England -- 18th century Christian ethics English language -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Intellectual life Religious thought SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268 England -- Church history -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043269 England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302 England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043303 Subject England Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 051115089X 9780511150890 0511067496 9780511067495

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