When1: 1675
When2: 1729
Who: British Moralists
What: philosophic school
Where: England
Detail: School included Samuel Clarke, Ralph Cudworth, John Balguy, and Richard Price on side of natural law and reason, and Hume, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson on side of emotion {sympathy, Hume} and moral sense. Benevolence, not self-love, is the basis of morals.
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