The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720@@@The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform, 1626-1660

Part One: 1. The Validity and Significance of Sprat's History as a Source. 2 A New System of Natural Philosophy I Francis Bacon . 3 A New System of Natural Philosophy II The Royal Society. 4The Oxford Experimental Science Club. 5 Establishment as a Royal Foundation. 6 The Religious Policy of the Royal Society. Part Two:1. John Wallis's Accounts of the Origin of the Royal Society. 2 The Royal Society and Gresham College. 3 The Invisible College. 4 The Royal Society and "Pansophia". Conclusion

The Royal Society: Concept and Creation

Burke's Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents

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Love, Sex, and the Noose: The Emotions of Sodomy in 18th-Century England

A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell

This is the first book-length study of one of the most influential traditions in eighteenth-century Anglophone moral and political thought, 'theological utilitarianism'. Niall O'Flaherty charts its development from its formulation by Anglican disciples of Locke in the 1730s to its culmination in William Paley's work. Few works of moral and political thought had such a profound impact on political discourse as Paley's Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785). His arguments were at the forefront of debates about the constitution, the judicial system, slavery and poverty. By placing Paley's moral thought in the context of theological debate, this book establishes his genuine commitment to a worldly theology and to a programme of human advancement. It thus raises serious doubts about histories which treat the Enlightenment as an entirely secular enterprise, as well as those which see English thought as being markedly out of step with wider European intellectual developments.

Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment : The Moral and Political Thought of William Paley

The rhetorical strategy of William Paley's Natural theology (1802): part 1, William Paley's Natural theology in context.

This essay offers a reassessment of William Paley's Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785). It focuses on his defence of religious ethics from challenges laid down in David Hume's Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). By restoring the context of theological/philosophical debate to Paley's thinking about ethics, the essay attempts to establish his genuine commitment to a worldly theology and to a programme of human advancement. This description of orthodox thought takes us beyond the bipolar debate about whether intellectual culture in the period was religious or secular: it was clearly religious; the question is: what kind of religion? It also makes questionable the view that England was somehow isolated from so-called Enlightenment currents of thought that were thriving elsewhere on the Continent. The “science of man”, far from being the sole preserve of Scottish and continental thinkers, also provided the basis for moral thought in eighteenth-century England.

Niall O'Flaherty

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Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment : The Moral and Political Thought of William Paley

The rhetorical strategy of William Paley's Natural theology (1802): part 1, William Paley's Natural theology in context.

William paley's moral philosophy and the challenge of hume: an enlightenment debate?

Malthus and the End of Poverty

Malthus and the History of Population