In recent years there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in ethical
sentimentalism, a moral theory first articulated during the Scottish Enlightenment. Ethical …

By founding morality on the particular sentiments of approbation and disapprobation,
Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith implied that the nature of moral judgment was far …

Adam Smith was born in 1723 to a well-off but not wealthy family in Kirkcaldy, a small port
town just outside Edinburgh, Scotland. His father died before he was born, but his mother …

This chapter argues that Enlightenment sentimentalism's greatest potential contribution to
scholarship today is not a matter for moral philosophy alone, but rather an agenda for fruitful …

The dissertation traces the development of what I call “the problem of partiality” through the
work of certain key figures in the British Moralist tradition: John Locke, Catharine Trotter …

The dissertation traces the development of what I call “the problem of partiality” through the
work of certain key figures in the British Moralist tradition: John Locke, Catharine Trotter …

In his Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals David Hume said that a group of earlier
modern philosophers, beginning with Malebranche, held that morality was founded on …

A debate between the virtue of self-interest and social conceptions of morality emerged in
the seventeenth century. Aspects of the historical narrative of these ideas have been …

This is a Japanese translation of nineteenth-century British philosopher Henry Sidgwick's
article “The Theory of Evolution in Its Application to Practice,” published in the first issue of …