How Long to Read The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics

How Long Does it Take to Read The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics by Michael B. Gill

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Description

Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, in this 2006 volume Michael Gill shows how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy. They effected a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human nature to thinking of it as part of human nature itself. He also shows how the British Moralists - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes by design - disengaged ethical thinking, first from distinctly Christian ideas and then from theistic commitments altogether. Examining in detail the arguments of Whichcote, Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson against Calvinist conceptions of original sin and egoistic conceptions of human motivation, Gill also demonstrates how Hume combined the ideas of earlier British moralists with his own insights to produce an account of morality and human nature that undermined some of his predecessors' most deeply held philosophical goals.

How long is The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics?

The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics by Michael B. Gill is 368 pages long, and a total of 94,944 words.

This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 38 minutes to read The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics aloud.

What Reading Level is The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics?

The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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