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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 December 2018
      20 December 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108662048
      9781108474474
      9781108464680
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108662048
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 360 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 362 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (118)
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (118)
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    This is the first book-length study of one of the most influential traditions in eighteenth-century Anglophone moral and political thought, 'theological utilitarianism'. Niall O'Flaherty charts its development from its formulation by Anglican disciples of Locke in the 1730s to its culmination in William Paley's work. Few works of moral and political thought had such a profound impact on political discourse as Paley's Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785). His arguments were at the forefront of debates about the constitution, the judicial system, slavery and poverty. By placing Paley's moral thought in the context of theological debate, this book establishes his genuine commitment to a worldly theology and to a programme of human advancement. It thus raises serious doubts about histories which treat the Enlightenment as an entirely secular enterprise, as well as those which see English thought as being markedly out of step with wider European intellectual developments.

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    • Chapter 1 - The Development of Lockean Moral Philosophy
      pp 35-57
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