Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1337-4 (ISBN)
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.
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.
1. Introduction
1.1. The questions of self-love1.2. Five conceptions of self-love1.3. Contexts and historiographies – old ones and new ones
2. Shaftesbury on the self-affections and the selfish hypothesis
2.1. ‘Hobbesian egoism’ and the right love for oneself2.2. Shaftesbury on the self-affections in the Inquiry2.3. A side-note on pride in Pathologia and Miscellanies2.4. Concluding thoughts
3. Mandeville: Self-love, self-liking and Augustinian themes
3.1. Mandeville on the passion of self-liking3.2. Self-liking and the civilising process: Politeness and honour3.3. Mandeville on the social virtues (plural) and on moral virtue (singular)3.4. Concluding thoughts
4. Hutcheson on self-love, benevolence, and self-cultivation
4.1. Hutcheson on self-love and the selfish hypothesis4.2. The moral value of self-love4.3. Self-love and self-cultivation4.4. A side-note on Alexander Forbes’ Essay on Self-Love (1734)4.5. Concluding thoughts
5. Butler on self-love as respect of self
5.1. The ‘inward frame of man’: Butler’s moral psychology5.2. Butler on self-love as respect of self5.3. A comparison between Butler and Hutcheson on self-love 5.4. The influence of Butler’s conception of self-love as respect of self5.5. Concluding thoughts
6. Campbell on true self-love and virtue
6.1. Campbell on self-love, the selfish hypothesis and sociability6.2. Campbell on morality and moral motivation6.3. Campbell’s attacks on Mandeville: Vice, Luxury, Fashionable Clothing and Virtue6.4. Campbell and the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on self-love6.5. Concluding thoughts
7. Hume, Smith and beyond
7.1. Hume on self-love, pride and vanity7.2. Smith and the rehabilitation of self-love7.3. The selfish hypothesis in Gay and Associationist psychology7.4. Towards the end of the eighteenth century7.5. Concluding thoughts
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.06.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 black and white tables |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 504 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-1337-4 / 1474413374 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-1337-4 / 9781474413374 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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