By Isabel Rivers
This quantity completes Isabel Rivers' widely-acclaimed exploration of the connection among faith and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates what occurred whilst makes an attempt have been made to split ethics from faith, and to find the basis of morals within the structure of human nature. Her ebook can pay shut realization to the circulate of principles throughout the British Isles, and demonstrates the large impact of Shaftesbury's ethical suggestion. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, this examine makes a necessary contribution to our figuring out of eighteenth-century suggestion.
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