Daniel Carey

Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson

Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

Are human beings linked by a common nature, one that makes them see the world in the same moral way? Or are they fragmented by different cultural practices and values? These fundamental questions of our existence were debated in the Enlightenment by Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson. Daniel Carey provides an important new historical perspective on their discussion. At the same time, he explores the relationship between these founding arguments and contemporary disputes over cultural diversity and multiculturalism. Our own conflicting positions today reflect long-standing differences that emerged during the Enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9780521845021
• ISBN-10: 0521845025
• Artikelnr.: 21274833

Autorenporträt

Daniel Carey is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Locke, diversity, and the natural history of man
2. The uses of diversity: Locke's reply to Stoicism
3. Locke's anthropology: travel, innateness, and the exercise of reason
4. Contesting diversity: Shaftesbury's Reply to Locke
5. Method, moral sense, and the problem of diversity: Francis Hutcheson and the Scottish Enlightenment
6. Conclusion: the future of diversity
Bibliography
Index.