Shaftesbury s Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was first published in 1711. It ranges widely over ethics, aesthetics, religion, the arts (painting, literature, architecture, gardening), and ancient and modern history, and aims at nothing less than a new ideal of the gentleman. Together with Locke s Essay Concerning Human ...
Shaftesbury's Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was first published in 1711. It ranges widely over ethics, aesthetics, religion, the arts (painting, literature, architecture, gardening), and ancient and modern history, and aims at nothing less than a new ideal of the gentleman. Together with Locke's Essay Concerning Human ...
This new edition of "Characteristicks" presents the complete 1732 text of this classic work of philosophy and political theory. Widely regarded as the first exponent of the view that ethics derives, not from reason alone, but from 'sentiment', Shaftesbury criticizes not only Locke but, especially, Hobbes for the dim view that 'the state of nature' ...
Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics. It was immensely influential on eighteenth-century British taste and manners, literature, and thought, and also on the Continental Enlightenment. The author was a Whig, a ...
Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics. It was immensely influential on eighteenth-century British taste and manners, literature, and thought, and also on the Continental Enlightenment. The author was a Whig, a ...
This collection features not only all the works published in Shaftesbury's lifetime but all his significant writings published subsequently, including his letters and philosophical notebooks.
This new edition of Characteristicks presents the complete 1732 text of this classic work of philosophy and political theory. Widely regarded as the first exponent of the view that ethics derives, not from reason alone, but from 'sentiment', Shaftesbury criticizes not only Locke but, especially, Hobbes for the dim view that 'the state of nature' ...
1711. Two Volumes in One. A collection of treatises from the English statesman. Contents Volume One: A Letter concerning Enthusiasm to My Lord; Sensu Communis; an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor; Soliloquy or, Advice to an Author; An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. Contents Volume Two: The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody; and ...
Mostly written in 1712, "Second Characters" contains the plan and fourth treatise of a work intended as a complement to the "Characteristics" and represents an application of the theoretical principles of that work to the realm of art.
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1790. A collection of treatises from the English statesman. Contents of Volume Three: Miscellaneous Reflections on the preceding treatises, and other critical subjects; A notion of the Tablature, or Judgment of Hercules; and A Letter concerning Design. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set ...
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