British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century, in Two Volumes

Two volume set. Edited with an Introduction and Analytical Index by L. A. Selby-Bigge. "The first volume contains representative works from the sentimental school: Shaftebury's "Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit," Hutcheson's "Inquiry Concerning the Original of Our Ideas of Virtue or Moral Good," and Butler's "Sermons" and dissertation, "Of the Nature of Virtue." There is an introduction by the editor discussing the position of moral philosophy in the period, the similarities and differences of the two major schools--the sentimental and intellectual schools--and indicating briefly the relation of Kant to the British moralists who proceeded him. Completing the volume are extracts from Bentham and Adam Smith. Volume II presents the position of the intellectual school with Samuel Clarke's "Discourse Upon Natural Religion," Balguy's "Foundation of Moral Goodness, Part I," and Richard Price's "Review of the Principal Questions in Morals." Theological utilitarians, John Brown, John Balguy, and William Paley, are included in this volume, along with selections from Cudworth, John Gay, Kames Bernard de Mandeville, and William Wollaston. Selections from Locke and Hobbes are included in the appendix for historical reference purposes."--rear wrapper