Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 2, Shaftesbury to Hume : A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660–1780

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This volume completes a widely acclaimed exploration of religion and ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It investigates attempts to separate ethics from religion, and instead to locate the morals in human nature. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, this study makes a vital contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century thought.