Ralph Cudworth: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With A Treatise of Freewill

by Ralph Cudworth, Sarah Hutton

Overview

Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688) deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In opposition to Hobbes, Cudworth proposes an innatist theory of knowledge that may be contrasted with the empirical position of his younger contemporary Locke, and in moral philosophy he anticipates the ethical rationalists of the eighteenth century. A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality is his most important work, and this volume makes it available, together with his shorter Treatise of Freewill, in its first modern edition, with a historical introduction, a chronology of his life, and an essay on further reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521479189
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/07/1996
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; A note on the text; 1. A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality; 2. A treatise of freewill; Glossary; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...there is much to be admired in Hutton's scholarly presentation of this rich and provocative text." Jennifer Nagel, Philosophy in Review

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