From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy

In this episode, Max Skjönsberg speaks with Tim Stuart-Buttle, who is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of York. His research focuses on early modern European intellectual history, and the history of political thought. In his new book, From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy - Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume (OUP, 2019), Tim offers a fresh view of British moral philosophy in the 17th and early 18th centuries, focussing on how philosophers such as Locke and Hume combined critique of the role of Christianity in moral thought with reconsideration of the legacy of the classical tradition of academic scepticism.