Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Joseph Butler’s Moral Philosophy" by Aaron Garrett
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There is currently no up to date, complete, critical edition of
Butler’s works. The relevant editions of Butler’s works
discussed in this article are:
- Butler, J. and Clarke, S., 1716, Several Letters from a
Gentleman in Glocestershire, London, J. Knapton. (Scholar)
- Butler, J., 1726, Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel, London: J. and J. Knapton. (Scholar)
- Butler, J., 1729, Fifteen Sermons Preached at Rolls
Chapel, London: J. and J. Knapton, 2nd edition.
[Revised and with the addition of a “Preface”.] (Scholar)
- Butler, J., 1736, The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, London: J. and P. Knapton, 2nd corrected edition. [This was the corrected edition that appeared in the same year as the initial imprint. The two dissertations — “Of Personal Identity” and “Of the Nature of Virtue” were appended to it.] (Scholar)
- Butler, J., 1749, Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls
Chapel… To which are added Six Sermons, Preached on Publick
Occasions, London: J. and P. Knapton, 4th edition.
[This edition marked the appearance of the Six Sermons.] (Scholar)
I have cited these works from the most complete current edition,
although the citations should allow for passages to be easily
identified in other editions:
I have cited the “Preface” to the 2nd edition
of the Sermons as “Preface,” the Sermons by number (i.e.
“Sermon VI”), the “Introduction” to the
Analogy of Religion as “Introduction,” the main
contents of the work by “Analogy” and chapter, the
Dissertation of Virtue as “Dissertation,” the Six Sermons
as “Six Sermons” and the Clarke/Butler correspondence as
“Clarke/Butler.” All references are by paragraph,
corresponding to the paragraphs in the White edition above.
There is now an excellent and extremely informative reader’s
edition of Butler’s Sermons and Dissertation on
Virtue with the addition of A Sermon Preached Before the
House of Lords and a selection from Butler’s correspondence
with Clarke:
- McNaughton, D. (ed.), 2017, Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons & other writings on ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Broad, C. D, 1930, Five Types of Ethical Theory, London: Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
- Clarke, S., 1706, A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable
Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of
Christian Revelation, London: J. Knapton. (Scholar)
- Cunliffe, C., (ed.), 1992, Joseph Butler’s Moral and
Religious Thought: Tercentenary Essays, Oxford: Oxford University
Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2008, “Butler, Joseph
(1692–1752),” in the Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Darwall, S., 1992, “Conscience as Self-Authorizing in
Butler’s Ethics,” in C. Cunliffe (ed.) 1992, pp.
209–241. (Scholar)
- –––, 1995, The British Moralists and the
Internal ‘Ought’: 1640–1740, Oxford: Oxford
University Press. (Scholar)
- Dick, David, 2017, “Constitutivism, Error, and Moral Responsibility in Bishop Butler’s Ethics,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, 55(4): 415–438. (Scholar)
- Frey, R. G., 1992, “Butler on Self-Love and Benevolence,” in C. Cunliffe (ed.), 1992, pp. 243–68. (Scholar)
- Garcia, Ernesto V., 2011, “Bishop Butler on Forgiveness and Resentment,” Philosophers’ Imprint, 11(10): 1–19. (Scholar)
- Garrett, A., 2012, “Reasoning about morals from Butler to Hume,” in Ruth Savage, (ed.), Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 169–186. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “The History of the History of
Ethics and Emblematic Passages,” in I. Hunter and R. Whatmore
(eds.), Philosophy, Rights, and Natural Law: Essays in Honour of
Knud Haakonssen, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
- Griswold, C., 2007, Forgiveness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, I.ii. (Scholar)
- Henson, R., 1988, “Butler on Selfishness and Self-Love,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 49(1): 31–57. (Scholar)
- Irwin, T. H., 2008, The Development of Ethics: Volume II: From
Suarez to Rousseau, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.
476–557. (Scholar)
- Louden, R., 1995, “Butler’s Divine
Utilitarianism,” History of Philosophy Quarterly,
12(3): 265–280. (Scholar)
- Maurer, C., 2019, Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis: Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
- McNaughton, D., 1992, “Butler on Benevolence,” in C.
Cunliffe (ed.), 1992, pp. 269–291. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Butler’s Ethics”
in Crisp, Roger, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the
History of Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.
377–392. (Scholar)
- McPherson, T. H., 1948, “The Development of Bishop
Butler’s Ethics — Part I,” Philosophy,
23(87): 317–331. (Scholar)
- –––, 1949, “The Development of Bishop
Butler’s Ethics – Part II,” Philosophy,
24(88): 3–22. (Scholar)
- Penelhum, T., 1986, Butler, Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
- –––, 1992, “Butler and Human
Ignorance,” in C. Cunliffe (ed.), 1992, pp. 117–40. (Scholar)
- Radzik, L., 2014, “Joseph Butler on Forgiveness,” in Johannes Brachtendorf and Stephan Herzberg (eds.), Vergebung: Philosophische Perspektiven auf ein Problemfeld der Ethik, Munster: Mentis, pp. 139–147. (Scholar)
- Rorty, A., 1978, “Butler on Benevolence and Conscience,” Philosophy, 53(204): 171–184. (Scholar)
- Russell, P., 2008, The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise:
Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion, Oxford: Oxford University
Press. (Scholar)
- Shaftesbury, Lord (Anthony Ashley Cooper), 1711,
Characteristicks, in Den Uyl, D., (ed.), Anthony, Third
Earl of Shaftesbury: Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions,
Times, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001, 3 volumes. (Scholar)
- Sidgwick, H., 1901, Methods of Ethics, London: Macmillan, 6th ed. (Scholar)
- Sober, E., 1992, “Hedonism and Butler’s Stone,”
Ethics, 103(1): 97–103. (Scholar)
- Tennant, B., 2011, Conscience, Consciousness, and Ethics in
Joseph Butler’s Philosophy and Ministry, Suffolk: Boydell
& Brewer. (Scholar)
- Tilley, J., 2018, “Butler’s Stone,” Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly, 99(4): 891–909. (Scholar)
- Wedgwood, R., 2008, “Butler on Virtue, Self-Interest and Human Nature,” in Paul Bloomfield (ed.), Morality and Self-Interest, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177–204. (Scholar)