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An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western
philosophy At the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley
Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the
first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English.
It revolutionized Western philosophy. In A Philosophy of Beauty,
Michael Gill presents an engaging account of how Shaftesbury's
thought profoundly shaped modern ideas of nature, religion,
morality, and art-and why, despite its long neglect, it remains
compelling today. Before Shaftesbury's magnum opus, Charactersticks
of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), it was common to see
wilderness as ugly, to associate religion with fear and morality
with unpleasant restriction, and to dismiss art as trivial or even
corrupting. But Shaftesbury argued that nature, religion, virtue,
and art can all be truly beautiful, and that cherishing and
cultivating beauty is what makes life worth living. And, as Gill
shows, this view had a huge impact on the development of natural
religion, moral sense theory, aesthetics, and environmentalism.
Combining captivating historical details and flashes of humor, A
Philosophy of Beauty not only rediscovers and illuminates a
fascinating philosopher but also offers an inspiring reflection
about the role beauty can play in our lives.
Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular
contemporary ethics, in this 2006 volume Michael Gill shows how the
British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy. They
effected a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human
nature to thinking of it as part of human nature itself. He also
shows how the British Moralists - sometimes inadvertently,
sometimes by design - disengaged ethical thinking, first from
distinctly Christian ideas and then from theistic commitments
altogether. Examining in detail the arguments of Whichcote,
Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson against Calvinist conceptions
of original sin and egoistic conceptions of human motivation, Gill
also demonstrates how Hume combined the ideas of earlier British
moralists with his own insights to produce an account of morality
and human nature that undermined some of his predecessors' most
deeply held philosophical goals.
Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular
contemporary ethics, in this volume Michael Gill shows how the
British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy. They
effected a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human
nature to thinking of it as part of human nature itself. He also
shows how the British Moralists - sometimes inadvertently,
sometimes by design - disengaged ethical thinking, first from
distinctly Christian ideas and then from theistic commitments
altogether. Examining in detail the arguments of Whichcote,
Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson against Calvinist conceptions
of original sin and egoistic conceptions of human motivation, Gill
also demonstrates how Hume combined the ideas of earlier British
moralists with his own insights to produce an account of morality
and human nature that undermined some of his predecessors' most
deeply held philosophical goals.
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