Ralph Cudworth: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill

ISBN-13: 9780521473620 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str.

Ralph Cudworth; Sarah Hutton

Opis

Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688) deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In opposition to Hobbes, Cudworth proposes an innatist theory of knowledge that may be contrasted with the empirical position of his younger contemporary Locke, and in moral philosophy he anticipates the ethical rationalists of the eighteenth century. A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality is his most important work, and this volume makes it available, together with his shorter Treatise of Freewill, in its first modern edition, with a historical introduction, a chronology of his life, and an essay on further reading.

Recenzje

"...there is much to be admired in Hutton's scholarly presentation of this rich and provocative text." Jennifer Nagel, Philosophy in Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; A note on the text; 1. A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality; 2. A treatise of freewill; Glossary; Index.