Author: Samuel Clarke
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Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Isaac Barrow
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Henry Hammond
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Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Author: John Wesley
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: John Holland
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Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: Samuel Clarke
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Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Samuel Clarke
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Robert South
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Author: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108586864
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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David Hume's moral system involves considerations that seem at odds with one another. He insists on the reality of moral distinctions, while showing that they are founded on the human constitution. He notes the importance to morality of the consequences of actions, while emphasizing that motives are the subjects of moral judgments. He appeals to facts about human psychology as the basis for an argument that morality is founded, not on reason, but on sentiment. Yet, he insists that no “ought” can follow from an “is.” He thinks that our motivation to justice must derive from our nature. Yet, he wonders how to explain why anyone would be motivated to follow rules when doing so does not further their personal interests. As an empiricist, his approach is descriptive, yet morality is prescriptive. This Element addresses these puzzles in Hume's moral theory, with reference to historical and contemporary discussions.

Author: Constantine Sandis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429874596
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Accounts of human and animal action have been central to modern philosophy from Suarez and Hobbes in the sixteenth century to Wittgenstein and Anscombe in the mid-twentieth century via Locke, Hume, Kant, and Hegel, among many others. Philosophies of action have thus greatly influenced the course of both moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind. This book gathers together specialists from both the philosophy of action and the history of philosophy with the aim of re-assessing the wider philosophical impact of action theory. It thereby explores how different notions of action, agency, reasons for action, motives, intention, purpose, and volition have affected modern philosophical understandings of topics as diverse as those of human nature, mental causation, responsibility, free will, moral motivation, rationality, normativity, choice and decision theory, criminal liability, weakness of will, and moral and social obligation. In so doing, it reinterprets the history of modern philosophy through the lens of action theory while also tracing the origins of contemporary questions in the philosophy of action back across half a millennium. This book was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Explorations.