The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740Cambridge University Press, 28. apr 1995 - 352 pages This book is a major work in the history of ethics, and provides the first study of early modern British philosophy in several decades. Professor Darwall discerns two distinct traditions feeding into the moral philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, there is the empirical, naturalist tradition, comprising Hobbes, Locke, Cumberland, Hutcheson, and Hume, which argues that obligation is the practical force that empirical discoveries acquire in the process of deliberation. On the other hand, there is the group including Cudworth, Shaftesbury, Butler, and in some moments Locke, which views obligation as inconceivable without autonomy and which seeks to develop a theory of the will as self-determining. |
Contents
The British moralists inventing internalism | 1 |
Culverwell and Locke classical and modern natural law | 23 |
Hobbes ethics as consequences from the passions of men | 53 |
Cumberland obligation naturalized | 80 |
Cudworth obligation and selfdetermining moral agency | 109 |
Locke autonomy and obligation in the revised Essay | 149 |
Shaftesbury authority and authorship | 176 |
Hutcheson moral sentiment and calm desire | 207 |
Butler conscience as selfauthorizing | 244 |
Hume norms and the obligation to be just | 284 |
Concluding reflections | 319 |
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References to this book
Reason Without Freedom: The Problem of Epistemic Normativity David J. Owens No preview available - 2000 |