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This major work in the history of ethics provides the first study of early modern British ethics in several decades. It aims to uncover the roots of the idea (called internalism in contemporary discussion) that any binding 'ought' must be based in the motives of a deliberating agent, as this notion developed in the thought of British philosophers writing in the period from Hobbes to the appearance of Hume's Treatise in 1740.

Stephen Darwall discerns two different traditions within which this idea was worked out. On the one hand, an empirical naturalist tradition, comprising Hobbes, Locke, Cumberland, Hutcheson, and Hume, argued that obligation is the practical force that empirical discoveries acquire in the process of deliberation.

On the other, a group including Cudworth, Shaftesbury, Butler, and, in some moments, Locke, viewed obligation as inconceivable without an autonomous will and sought (well before Kant) to develop a theory of the will as self-determining and to devise an account of obligation linked to that.

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352

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The British moralists and the internal "ought", 1640-1740
1995, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-345) and index.

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Cambridge, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
170/.941/09032
Library of Congress
B1131 .D37 1995

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Pagination
xii, 352 p. ;
Number of pages
352

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Open Library
OL1097302M
Internet Archive
britishmoralists00darw_192
ISBN 10
0521451671, 0521457823
LCCN
94021945
OCLC/WorldCat
30665542
Library Thing
164524
Goodreads
2905201
1003898

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