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In ethics, Cudworth's outstanding work is A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, directed against Puritan Calvinism, against the divine omnipotence discussed by René Descartes, and against the Hobbesian reduction of morality to civil obedience.
It should be clear that this argument does not involve any reduction of morality to self-interest.
It is, in Turnbull's judgment, the failure to respect this experimental method that led to the moral scepticism (as Turnbull thought it to be) of Hobbes and Mandeville, whose reduction of morality to self-love flies in the face of experience and is a shock to common sense.
The error in this reasoning is the reduction of morality to enhanced security, as if there are no other considerations involved in morality.
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It is the highest form of morality".
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It's got a kind of morality".
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A degraded level of morality.
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