Bokus
Christian Maurer - Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis

Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy

Av Christian Maurer

1974 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning
The dawn of the Enlightenment saw heated debates on self-love. Do people only act out of self-interest? Or is there a less pessimistic explanation for human behaviour? Maurer delves into the contributions to these debates from both famous and lesser known authors, including Lord Shaftesbury, Bernard Mandeville, Francis Hutcheson, Joseph Butler, Archibald Campbell, David Hume and Adam Smith, and puts them in their philosophical, theological and economic context. Maurer identifies five distinct conceptions of self-love and looks at their role within theories of human psychology and morality while drawing attention to the heuristic limits of our contemporary notion of egoism. He compares the central arguments and the different strategies intended to morally rehabilitate human nature and self-love before and during the Enlightenment.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-04-03
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 504 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781474413374
Utforska kategorier
Mer om författaren

Christian Maurer is SNSF Professor in Philosophy at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has studied, taught and held research fellowships in various Universities across Switzerland, Scotland, France and Germany. Maurer’s main research areas are in moral and political philosophy. He has worked extensively on the history of British moral philosophy and theology, on pre-Enlightenment Scottish moral philosophy, on the reception of Stoicism, on tolerance and on love.

Recensioner i media

A great virtue of Christian Maurer’s Self-Love, Egoism, and the Selfish Hypothesis is to disambiguate five senses of self-love in eighteenth-century discussions. ‘Self-love’ and its synonyms variously refer to (1) egoistic desire, (2) love of praise, (3) self-esteem, (4) amour propre and (5) self-respect. Maurer uses these ideal types forensically to provide a better understanding of what is being debated by whom and why … All scholars of early modern moral philosophy will benefit from reading this book and will think about the debates over self-love differently after having read it.

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.