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Conscience, consciousness and ethics in Joseph Butler's philosophy and ministry
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ISBN: 128101690X 9786613772206 1846159393 1843836122 Year: 2011 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Joseph Butler [1692-1752] is perhaps Britain's most powerful and original moral philosopher. He exercised a profound influence over the contemporary Protestant Churches, the English moralists and the Scottish philosophical school but his theory of the "affections", grounded in Newtonian metaphysics and presenting an account of human psychology, also set the terms of engagement with questions of education, slavery, missions and even labour relations. In the nineteenth-century English-speaking world he was an authority of first resort for Evangelicals, Tractarians, philosophers, scientists, psychologists, economists, sociologists, lawyers and educationalists alike. He remains a key reference point for modern American and British philosophers, from Broad to Rawls and beyond.
Many analyses of Butler, however, have been distorted by aggressively secular readings.
This book is based on a comprehensive reassessment of his published work and the surviving manuscripts and archival materials. These are set within an account of his spiritual and intellectual development and his ministerial vocation, from the protracted and painful process of conforming to the Church of England to his initial observations on a social philosophy.
Demonstrating that even The Analogy originated in liturgical preaching, this book offers a refreshed and detailed account of Butler's key terms - conscience, consciousness, identity, affections, charity, analogy, probability, tendency - and suggests that exploration of his methods may contribute to modern thinking about ethics, language, the role of the Church, and the religion and science debates.

BOB TENNANT taught English Literature at the University of Sussex, spent many years as a senior manager in adult education, and was a trade union and political activist serving leading organisations at local, regional and national levels. He has written on political, economic and trade union matters for many newspapers and periodicals and is a founder of The British Pulpit Online, seeking to create an online catalogue and database of all printed British sermons from 1660 to 1901.


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Philosophic pride : Stoicism and political thought from Lipsius to Rousseau
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ISBN: 128049428X 9786613589514 1400842417 069115208X 9780691152080 9781400842414 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher Brooke examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. Brooke delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, Philosophic Pride details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes. Philosophic Pride shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

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Political science --- Philosophy --- History. --- Stoïcisme --- Philosophie politique --- Influence --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social ethics --- History of philosophy --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Influence. --- Adam and Eve. --- Anthony Ashley Cooper. --- Augustine of Hippo. --- Augustinian. --- Augustinianism. --- Augustinus. --- Benedict Spinoza. --- Bernard Mandeville. --- Blaise Pascal. --- Cambridge Platonists. --- Christianity. --- Ciceronian Stoicism. --- City of God. --- Corneille Jansen. --- David Hume. --- De Constantia. --- De Jure Belli ac Pacis. --- Deism. --- Emile. --- Epictetus. --- Epicureanism. --- Francis Hutcheson. --- Franois de Salignac. --- Franois duc de La Rochefoucauld. --- French Augustinians. --- German idealist philosophy. --- Greek Stoics. --- Hobbism. --- Hugo Grotius. --- Jean-Franois Senault. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Johann Franz Buddeus. --- Joseph Butler. --- Justis Lipsius. --- Justus Lipsius. --- Latitudinarians. --- Marcus Aurelius. --- Marxism. --- Michel de Montaigne. --- Neostoicism. --- Niccol Machiavelli. --- Nicolas Malebranche. --- Pierre Bayle. --- Politica. --- Ralph Cudworth. --- Richard Cumberland. --- Roman Stoics. --- Samuel Parker. --- Second Discourse. --- Spinozism. --- Stoic continuity. --- Stoic ethics. --- Stoic moral psychology. --- Stoic philosophy. --- Stoicism. --- Tacitus. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- William Shakespeare. --- amour-propre. --- anti-Stoicism. --- apatheia. --- appetitus societatis. --- atheism. --- classical political economy. --- classical scholarship. --- historical connections. --- human sociability. --- moral psychology. --- natural law. --- natural rights tradition. --- oikeiosis. --- passionlessness. --- philosophical critique. --- political action. --- political thought. --- political writers. --- politics. --- post-Machiavellian prince. --- radical French politics. --- religion. --- self-liking. --- self-love.

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