Many analyses of Butler, however, have been distorted by aggressively secular readings. This book is based on a comprehensive reassessment of his published work and the surviving manuscripts and archival materials.

The essays in this book mark the tercentenary of the birth of Bishop Joseph Butler, the leading Anglican theologian of the eighteenth century and also an important moral philosopher.

This book stands as a vital contribution to the discourse on human nature and morality, making it essential reading for those interested in ethical philosophy, theology, and the interplay of religion and reason.

While this is a readers' edition that avoids cluttering Butler's text with textual variants and intrusive footnotes, it comes complete with scholarly apparatus intended to aid the reader in studying Butlers work in depth.

... conscience - Joseph Butler ( 1692-1752 ) Joseph Butler was an Anglican priest and theologian . He saw conscience as the final moral decision - maker : ' There is a principle of reflection in men by which they distinguish between ...

The essays in this volume exhibit the full range of Butler's thought and set it in its historical context. The relevance of his writings to modern religious and philosophical issues is also explored.

This book reassesses the ethics of reason in the Age of the Reason, making use of the neglected category of conscience.