Reason, Grace and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780.

Introduction 1. The true religion of nature: the freethinkers and their opponents 2. Shaftesbury and the defence of natural affection 3. Defining the moral faculty: Hutcheson, Butler, and Price 4. The ethics of sentiment and the religious hypothesis: Hume and his critics 5. The conflict of languages in the later eighteenth century.