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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

On the nature and implications of variations in moral
beliefs: E. Westermarck, Origin and Development of the
Moral Ideas,
2 vols. (London, 1906); idem, Ethical Relativity
(London, 1932); L. T. Hobhouse, Morals in Evolution
(London, 1906); L. Lévy-Bruhl, Ethics and Moral Science


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(London, 1905); W. E. H. Lecky, History of European Morals
from Augustus to Charlemagne,
5th ed., 2 vols. (London,
1882); A. MacBeath, Experiments in Living (London, 1952);
R. B. Brandt, Hopi Ethics (Chicago, 1954); J. Ladd, The
Structure of a Moral Code
(Cambridge, Mass., 1957).

The main texts for the seventeenth- and eighteenth-
century controversy are: T. Hobbes, Leviathan (London,
1651); F. Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of our
Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
(London, 1725); idem, Essay
on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
with Illustrations upon the Moral Sense
(London, 1728;
3rd. ed., London, 1745); D. Hume, Treatise of Human Na-
ture
(London, 1739-40); idem, Enquiry concerning the
Principles of Morals
(London, 1751); J. Balguy, Foundation
of Moral Goodness
(London, 1728-29); R. Price, Review of
the Principal Questions in Morals
(1758; 3rd ed., London,
1787).

Some recent discussions of the philosophical problems are
contained in: P. Edwards, Logic of Moral Discourse
(Glencoe, Ill., 1955); R. B. Brandt, Ethical Theory
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1959); R. M. Hare, The Language
of Morals
(Oxford and New York, 1952); D. H. Monro,
Empiricism and Ethics (Cambridge, 1967); Charles Steven-
son, Ethics and Language (New Haven, 1960); P. Winch,
“Nature and Convention,” Aristotelian Society Proceedings,
1959-60,
60 (London, 1961), 231-52.

D. H. MONRO

[See also Evil; Mathematical Rigor; Right and Good;
Utilitarianism.
]