{"id":5787,"date":"2025-12-03T04:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apeterman.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/phl202f25\/?page_id=5787"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:59:23","slug":"joseph-butler-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apeterman.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/phl202f25\/joseph-butler\/joseph-butler-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Butler Bibliography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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  1. Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and Other Writings on Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Butler, Joseph. Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel. Christian Classics Ethereal Library, www.ccel.org\/ccel\/butler\/sermons<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Modern Edited Volume: Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and Other Writings on Ethics. Oxford UP, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    1. \u201cButler, Joseph.\u201d Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www.iep.utm.edu\/joseph-butler<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This article introduces Joseph Butler as an early modern moral philosopher and theologian. It outlines his life, significant works, and central ideas about conscience, self\u2011love, and benevolence. The entry also places Butler in conversation with other thinkers of his time, especially Hobbes and other moral philosophers who argued about what really motivates human beings. On my website, I plan to use this source to give readers a clear overview of Butler\u2019s ideas as well as to support my own claim that his \u201cdark\u201d view of self\u2011deception is compatible with a optimistic understanding of conscience.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      1. \u00a0Kawall, Jason. \u201cJoseph Butler\u2019s Moral Philosophy.\u201d The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Fall 2020 ed., plato.stanford.edu\/archives\/fall2020\/entries\/butler-moral<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This article offers a more technical reconstruction of Butler\u2019s moral psychology, carefully analyzing how self\u2011love, particular passions, benevolence, and conscience are related in his theory. Kawall explains Butler\u2019s main arguments against egoism and overly sentimental moral theories while simultaneously showing how Butler uses the idea of conscience to answer said arguments. The piece also discusses Butler\u2019s treatment of self\u2011deception and hypocrisy, emphasizing how people systematically blind themselves to their real motives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        1. \u201cFifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel by Joseph Butler.\u201d Research Starters: Literature and Writing, EBSCOhost. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This research\u2011starter summarizes the main themes of Fifteen Sermons, especially Butler\u2019s insistence that self\u2011love and benevolence are not simple opposites and that conscience has authority over both. It highlights key sermons and explains in plain language how Butler thinks and argues. The article also points out how Butler uses examples of everyday behavior to show how self\u2011deception works and why moral failure is so common. I plan to use this source to choose which specific sermons to focus on and to help me present Butler\u2019s ideas in straightforward terms for my website audience.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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