A Philosophy of Love: Henry More’s Moral Philosophy
A Philosophy of Love: Henry More’s Moral Philosophy
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爱的哲学：亨利·莫尔的道德哲学
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2019
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James Bryson
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James Bryson
本文是对亨利·莫尔 (Henry More) 在他的《道德百科全书》(Enchiridion Ethicum，1668) 中提出的伦理学的第一篇系统的哲学分析。它建立在学者们的见解之上，他们将爱视为剑桥柏拉图主义者思想中的一个关键概念。它认为莫尔的伦理学应该被解读为一种爱的哲学，通过诉诸虔诚的爱逻辑，将理性与精神、智力与意志、神性与人性融为一体。特别关注莫尔所谓的道德公理——他称之为道德意向——它发展了一种旨在净化灵魂的逻辑；现代学者认为，它们并不将道德和数学的确定性等同起来，也没有为世俗道德的出现铺平道路。本文探讨了莫尔关于激情是好的观点以及如何使激情变得美德的含义。它表明他的自由意志观念如何依赖于谦卑的美德和灵魂对神圣智慧的参与。本文还包括对“正确理性”和“博尼形式教义”的重要分析，这是莫尔伦理学的核心教义，以及当灵魂爱上上帝时它们如何相遇。
This article is the first systematic philosophical analysis of Henry More’s ethics as set out in his Enchiridion Ethicum (1668). It builds on the insights of scholars who have identified love as a key concept in the thought of the Cambridge Platonists. It contends that More’s ethics ought to be read as a philosophy of love, integrating the rational and spiritual, intellect and will, and the divine and human through an appeal to a prayerful logic of love. Special attention is paid to More’s so-called moral axioms – what he calls Moral Noemata – which develop a logic that aims at the purification of the soul; they do not, pace modern scholars, equate moral and mathematical certainty, nor do they pave the way for the emergence of a secular morality. This article addresses the implications of More’s claim that the passions are good and how they are made virtuous. It shows how his idea of free will depends on the virtue of humility and the soul’s participation in divine wisdom. This article also includes important analysis of “Right Reason” and the “Boniform Faculty”, doctrines central to More’s ethics, and how they meet when the soul falls in love with God.