From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume

ISBN-13: 9780198835585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Tim Stuart-Buttle

Recenzje

In this rigorous, persuasive, and highly accomplished book, Tim Stuart-Buttle sets out to uncover and bring to the fore a crucial but neglected aspect of the history of moral thought in Britain from John Locke to David Hume: the evolution of a fully secular moral philosophy which came to both separate itself from, and in turn repudiate, the moral theology from which it was born. Marshalling a dazzling array of thinkers and sources, which are brought to bear in an impressively focused and unified historical narrative, this monograph constitutes one of the major achievements of recent intellectual history, and provides a significant advance in our understanding of early modern moral philosophy.

O autorze

Tim Stuart-Buttle is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York and a member of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique. Prior to this, he held a postdoctoral research associateship at the University of Cambridge. He has published articles in journals including Locke Studies, History of Political Thought and Political Theory, and essays in collected volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon (Cambridge 2018). He is the co-editor, with Subha Mukherji, of Literature, Belief, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Knowing Faith (Palgrave Macmillan 2018).