The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics

Michael B. (University of Arizona) Gill

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521184403
ISBN-10
0521184401
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Publication date
2011-02-17
Pages
368
Dimensions
229x150x24
Weight
554