Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment

This book reassesses the ethics of reason in the Age of the Reason, making use of the neglected category of conscience.  Arguing that conscience was a central feature of British Enlightenment ethical rationalism, the book explores the links between Enlightenment philosophy and modern secularisation, while responding to longstanding criticisms of rational intuitionism and the analogy between mathem...