Author | Olscamp, Paul J. author |
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Title | The Moral Philosophy of George Berkeley [electronic resource] / by Paul J. Olscamp |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1969 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3199-8 |
Descript | IX, 241 p. online resource |
I: The language of the Author of Nature -- 1. The Nature of the Metaphor -- 2. Signs and Symbols, Suggestion and Judgment -- 3. Further Development, and Natural Laws -- 4. A Theory of Truth, and Natural Laws -- II: Utilitarian and Rule-Utilitarian Elements in Berkeleyโs Normative Ethics -- 1. Kinds of Pleasures and Pains, and the Moral End of Man -- 2. Passive Obedience and Moral Rules -- 3. Two Kinds of Moral Rules, and some Theological Implications -- 4. Some Rule-Utilitarian Elements -- 5. A Preliminary Summing-Up -- III: Ethical Acts and Free Will -- 1. Acts and Consequences -- 2. Free Will -- 3. Other Evidence, Guilt, and Comments -- 4. Preliminary Conclusions -- IV: The Role of God and the Definition of Good -- 1. The Necessary Argument -- 2. The Probable Argument -- 3. Another Kind of Evidence, and the Meaning of โGoodโ. -- 4. Criticisms -- V: Berkeley and the Emotive Uses of Ethical Language -- 1. Abstract General Ideas and the โFamiliarโ Uses of Words -- 2. More About Berkeleyโs Theory of Truth -- 3. An Important Passage and a Working Example -- VI: Berkeley and Shaftesbury -- 1. Shaftesburyโs Ethical System -- 2. More about Moral Sense, and Enthusiasm -- 3. Berkeley versus Shaftesbury -- VII: Berkeley and Mandeville -- 1. Mandevilleโs Theory of Social Ethics and Human Nature -- 2. Berkeley versus Mandeville -- VIII: The Deists -- 1. The Principles of Deism -- 2. Some Individual Deists -- IX: Peter Browne, Berkeley, and the Deists -- 1. Peter Browne and Analogical Arguments -- 2. Browne and Berkeley -- 3. Berkeley versus the Deists -- X: Conclusion -- 1. Moral Philosophy -- 2. Did Berkeley have a Moral philosophy? -- 3. Some General Criticisms