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Love of Humanity in Shaftesbury's Moralists

Shaftesbury believed that the height of virtue was impartial love for all of humanity. But Shaftesbury also harboured grave doubts about our ability to develop such an expansive love. In The Moralists, Shaftesbury addressed this problem. I show that while it may appear on the surface that The Moralists solves the difficulty, it in fact remains unresolved. Shaftesbury may not have been able to reconcile his view of the content of virtue with his view of our motivational psychology.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621906
Date22 June 2016
CreatorsGill, Michael B
ContributorsUniversity of Arizona
PublisherROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
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