Ralph Cudworth: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
With A Treatise of Freewill

A modern edition of an important seventeenth-century British treatise.

Ralph Cudworth (Author), Sarah Hutton (Edited by)

9780521473620, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 November 1996

256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.55 kg

"...there is much to be admired in Hutton's scholarly presentation of this rich and provocative text." Jennifer Nagel, Philosophy in Review

Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In opposition to Hobbes, Cudworth proposes an innatist theory of knowledge which may be contrasted with the empirical position of his younger contemporary Locke, and in moral philosophy he anticipates the ethical rationalists of the eighteenth century. A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality is his most important work, and this volume makes it available, together with his shorter Treatise of Freewill, with a historical introduction, a chronology of his life, and an essay on further reading.

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Chronology
Further reading
A note on the text
1. A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality
2. A treatise of freewill
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]