A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality: with, A treatise of freewill

Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In opposition to Hobbes, Cudworth proposes an innatist theory of knowledge which may be contrasted with the empirical position of his younger contemporary Loc...

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Beteilige Person: Cudworth, Ralph 1617-1688 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Hutton, Sarah 1948- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139166720
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139166720
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139166720
Zusammenfassung:Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In opposition to Hobbes, Cudworth proposes an innatist theory of knowledge which may be contrasted with the empirical position of his younger contemporary Locke, and in moral philosophy he anticipates the ethical rationalists of the eighteenth century. A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality is his most important work, and this volume makes it available, together with his shorter Treatise of Freewill, with a historical introduction, a chronology of his life, and an essay on further reading
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Umfang:1 online resource (xxxvi, 218 pages)
ISBN:9781139166720
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139166720