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Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis - Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis - Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The dawn of the Enlightenment saw heated debates on self-love. Do
people only act out of self-interest? Or is there a less
pessimistic explanation for human behaviour? Maurer delves into the
contributions to these debates from both famous and lesser known
authors, including Lord Shaftesbury, Bernard Mandeville, Francis
Hutcheson, Joseph Butler, Archibald Campbell, David Hume and Adam
Smith, and puts them in their philosophical, theological and
economic context. Maurer identifies five distinct conceptions of
self-love and looks at their role within theories of human
psychology and morality while drawing attention to the heuristic
limits of our contemporary notion of egoism. He compares the
central arguments and the different strategies intended to morally
rehabilitate human nature and self-love before and during the
Enlightenment.
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