This is not a random collection of essays, but a book on a single
theme. Written by separate hands, mainly by literary critics at
Cambridge, it was planned as a whole and executed with a common
purpose: to produce the first literary study of the English
moralists of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the
twentieth. The authors share two convictions: they believe that the
study of literature demands an understanding of whatever moral
philosophy is embodied in it; and they believe that philosophical
writings are capable of being tested by the techniques of literary
criticism. In this book, such works as Bacon's Advancement of
Learning, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Hume's Enquiries are viewed as
whole works, not as repositories of philosophical propositions, nor
as episodes in the history of English thought.
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