Isabel Rivers

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 2, Shaftesbury to Hume (eBook, PDF)

A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Focusing on moral philosophy and the educational institutions in which (or in spite of which) these ideas were developed, the book pays close attention to the movement of ideas through the British Isles, in particular the spread of Shaftesbury's thought from England to Ireland and Scotland, and the varied reception of Hume's scepticism north and south of the border. It also demonstrates the enormous influence of Shaftesbury's moral thought and the ultimate triumph of the English interpretation of Shaftesbury with the rise of Butler. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, this volume makes a vital contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511059032
• Artikelnr.: 38206070

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The conflict of languages in the mid-seventeeth century
2. The religion of reason: the latitude-men
3. The religion of grace: Baxter, Bunyan, and the nonconformist reaction
4. Affectionate religion: Watts, Doddridge, and the tradition of old dissent
5. John Wesley and the language of scripture, reason and experience
Bibliography
Index.