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Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis: Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy

by Maurer Christian

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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The dawn of the Enlightenment saw heated debates on self-love. Do people only act out of self-interest? Or is there a less pessimistic explanation for human behaviour? Maurer delves into the contributions to these debates from both famous and lesser known authors, including Lord Shaftesbury, Bernard Mandeville, Francis Hutcheson, Joseph Butler, Archibald Campbell, David Hume and Adam Smith, and puts them in their philosophical, theological and economic context. Maurer identifies five distinct conceptions of self-love and looks at their role within theories of human psychology and morality while drawing attention to the heuristic limits of our contemporary notion of egoism. He compares the central arguments and the different strategies intended to morally rehabilitate human nature and self-love before and during the Enlightenment.
Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis: Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy and Sacred And The Profane
Sacred And The ProfaneSelf-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis: Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy
  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Edinburgh University Press

  • Published

    November 2020

  • Weight

    346g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781474477970

  • ISBN-10

    1474477976

  • Eden Code

    5258594

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