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Sacrifice Regained
- Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham
Engelsk Hardback

Sacrifice Regained

- Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780198840473
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198840470
Udg. Dato:
3 sep 2019
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
3 sep 2019
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