British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics, the
Auteur :
Gill, Michael B.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521184403
Date de publication :
17 févr. 2011
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
540 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.