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Sacrifice Regained - Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Hardcover)
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Sacrifice Regained - Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (Hardcover)
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Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp
examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the
so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for
the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves
elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being)
and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of
each to the other. Themes ran through many of these writers:
psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and - after Hobbes - the
acceptance of self-standing moral reasons. But there are
exceptions, and even those taking the standard views adopt them for
very different reasons and express them in various ways. As the
ancients tended to believe that virtue and happiness largely
coincide, so these modern authors are inclined to accept posthumous
reward and punishment. Both positions sit uneasily with the
common-sense idea that a person can truly sacrifice their own good
for the sake of morality or for others. Roger Crisp shows that
David Hume - a hedonist whose ethics made no appeal to the
afterlife - was the first major British moralist to allow for,
indeed to recommend, such self-sacrifice. Morality and well-being
of course remain central to modern ethics, and Crisp demonstrates
how much there is to learn from this remarkable group of
philosophers.
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