Reviews for An ethical movement

The average rating for An ethical movement based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-05-23 00:00:00 John Golden Hutcheson here defends the moral system he laid out in his Inquiry. Although some of the further illustrations and examples are helpful, most are aimed at combating very specific 18th century philosophical arguments, most of which no longer have much relevance.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-05 00:00:00 Gregory White I was assigned this as part of a teaching assistantship, probably to cull portions relevant to some research my boss was doing. A facsimile edition, I didn't much enjoy reading the antiquated script. As regards the views of the author, his postulation of "moral" and other senses on a virtual par with the physical ones seemed a cheap evasion of the ethical problematic I was concerned about. Basically, he affirms that people are naturally moral, a position not too unlike Rousseau's, though they can be perverted. This hardly seemed to address the imaginary interlocutor I concerned myself with, the Hobbesian individualist or modern sociopath who would say that all interest is self-interest or, even worse, such a one as might be imagined by de Sade who would even challenge any prudential sense of self-interest. What does one say to such a person? What arguments can be made which will compel assent? For what it's worth, the best arguments I'd become familiar with were the deontological with all of their circularity.