Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780521845021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 280 str.

Daniel Carey

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… deeply researched and finely nuanced … attest[s] to a deepening interest in the relations between science and empire, broadly understood, in late seventeenth-century English worlds … it is to be hoped more will follow.' British Journal for the History of Science

Spis treści

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.