Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context - Couverture rigide

Fiering, Norman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807814733 ISBN 13 : 9780807814734

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1981

Synopsis

Book by Fiering Norman

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The problems of moral philosophy were a central preoccupation of literate people in eighteenth-century America and Britain. It is not surprising, then, that Jonathan Edwards was drawn into a colloquy with some of the major ethicists of the age. Moral philosophy in this era was so all-encompassing in its claims that it encroached seriously on traditional religion. In response, Edwards presented a detailed analysis and criticism of secular moral philosophy in order to demonstrate its inadequacy, and he formulated a system that he believed was demonstrably superior to the existing secular systems. In this comprehensive study, Norman Fiering skillfully integrates Edwards's work on ethics into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and Continental philosophy and isolates Edwards's particular contributions to the ethical thought of his time. In addition, Fiering traces the chronological development of Edwards's thought, showing the relationship between his wide reading and his writing.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Norman Fiering is Director and Librarian Emeritus of the John Carter Brown Library. His scholarly research has centered on the early intellectual history of New England and on related factors in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain and France. He is the author of two books, Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition and Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context, both initially published in 1981 by the University of North Carolina Press. The two books together were awarded the Merle Curti Prize for Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0807814733
• ISBN 13: 9780807814734
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 540