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Title:

Human nature as the basis of morality and society in early modern philosophy / edited by Juhana Lemetti and Eva Piirimäe.

Publisher:

Philosophical Society of Finland,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

206 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Ethics.
Social ethics.
Philosophy, Modern--17th century.
Philosophy, Modern--18th century.

Other Authors:

Lemetti, Juhana. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008023711
Piirimäe, Eva. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008023742
Suomen Filosofinen Yhdistys. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81071491

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction / Eva Piirimäe and Juhana Lemetti -- Thomas Hobbes's many states of nature / Timo Airaksinen -- The theological positivism of George Berkeley (1707-1708) / Bertil Belfrage -- Was Berkeley a Utilitarian? / Roomet Jakapi -- Giambattista Vico's concept of human nature : an attempt at anti-Cartesian alternative and the birth of modern historicism / Leonidas Donskis -- The science of man in the moral and political philosophy of George Turnbull (1698-1748) / Thomas Ahnert -- Honour and pride in Adam Ferguson's conception of modern patriotism / Iain MacDaniel -- The vicissitudes of noble national pride : Johann Georg Zimmermann's (1728-1795) theory of patriotism / Eva Piirimäe -- Adam Smith on sympathy and moral motivation / Margit Sutrop -- Adam Smith's model of man and why the market programme failed / Manfred J. Holler -- Adam Smith's concept of social welfare / Matthew Braham.

Series:

Acta philosophica Fennica, 0355-1792 ; v. 83

ISBN:

9519264655
9789519264653

OCLC:

(OCoLC)191872055

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)