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    Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and other writings on ethics by McNaughton, David;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 19 January 2017

    • ISBN 9780199657568
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages246 pages
    • Size 233x154x13 mm
    • Weight 382 g
    • Language English
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    Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons (1726) is a classic and widely influential work of moral philosophy. Its topics include the role of conscience in human nature, self-love and egoism, compassion, resentment and forgiveness, love of our neighbour and of God. It is here presented with introduction, annotation, and other selected writings by Butler.

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    Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons (1726) is a classic work of moral philosophy, widely influential ever since. The topics Butler discusses include the role of conscience in human nature, self-love and egoism, compassion, resentment and forgiveness, love of our neighbour and of God. The text of the second edition of the Sermons is here presented together with a selection of Butler's other ethical writings: the Dissertation of the Nature of Virtue, a sermon on hypocrisy and liberty preached before the House of Lords, and relevant extracts from his correspondence with Samuel Clarke. David McNaughton contributes a substantial historical and philosophical introduction to help readers understand these works and see their continuing importance. While it is a readers' edition which avoids the clutter of textual variants and intrusive footnotes, it comes complete with scholarly apparatus intended to aid the reader in studying Butler's work in depth. McNaughton also includes short summaries of Butler's predecessors, and a selective bibliography. This will be the definitive resource for anyone interested in Butler's moral philosophy.

    David McNaughton provides an excellent and accessible critical introduction to Butler's celebrated Fifteen Sermons and a number of other shorter pieces (which he has edited and annotated). In this introduction he brings out the ongoing relevance of Butler's work to questions raised by modern philosophy, albeit shorn of theological components.

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    Table of Contents:

    Sermon 1 Upon Human Nature
    Sermon 2 Upon Human Nature
    Sermon 3 Upon Human Nature
    Sermon 4 Upon the Government of the Tongue
    Sermon 5 Upon Compassion
    Sermon 6 Upon Compassion
    Sermon 7 Upon the Character of Balaam
    Sermon 8 Upon Resentment
    Sermon 9 Upon the Forgiveness of Injuries
    Sermon 10 Upon Self-Deceit
    Sermon 11 Upon the Love of our Neighbour
    Sermon 12 Upon the Love of our Neighbour
    Sermon 13 Upon the Love of God
    Sermon 14 Upon the Love of God
    Sermon 15 Upon the Ignorance of Man
    A Dissertation of the Nature of Virtue
    A Sermon Preached Before the House of Lords
    A Selection from the Correspondence between Joseph Butler and Samuel Clarke
    Editorial Notes
    Butler's Predecessors

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