M.T. Cicero, His Offices
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1755
Category : Ethics
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1755
Category : Ethics
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Authors, Classical
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 960 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English literature
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1795
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Author : William FORSYTH (Q.C. LL.D.)
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Robert Watt
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Page : 838 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 1824
Category : English literature
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Page : 836 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 1824
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Author : Lewis Wilhelm Brüggemann
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Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 1797
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Page : 742 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Colin Heydt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108369197
The long eighteenth century is a crucial period in the history of ethics, when our moral relations to God, ourselves and others were minutely examined and our duties, rights and virtues systematically and powerfully presented. Colin Heydt charts the history of practical morality - what we ought to do and to be - from the 1670s, when practical ethics arising from Protestant natural law gained an institutional foothold in England, to early British responses to the French Revolution around 1790. He examines the conventional philosophical positions concerning the content of morality, and utilizes those conventions to reinterpret the work of key figures including Locke, Hume, and Smith. Situating these positions in their thematic and historical contexts, he shows how studying them challenges our assumptions about the originality, intended audience, and aims of philosophical argument during this period. His rich and readable book will appeal to a range of scholars and students.