“KEEPING THE HEART”: NATURAL AFFECTION IN JOSEPH BUTLER'S APPROACH TO VIRTUE.
This essay considers eighteenth-century Anglican thinker Joseph Butler's view of the role of natural emotions in moral reasoning and action. Emotions such as compassion and resentment are shown to play a positive role in the moral life by motivating action and by directing agents toward certain good...
| Published in: | Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 613 - 630 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2009
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