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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3d Earl Of - 1671–1713, English philosopher. The philosopher John Locke, adviser to the 1st earl, his grandfather, was in charge of Shaftesbury's education, which was largely classical. Ill health restricted his political life, although he served (1695–98) in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords after his accession to his title in 1699

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The Third Earl of Shaftesbury: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory » Read Now
by R. L. Brett. 234 pgs.

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Characteristics of Men, Manners Opinions, Times » Read Now
by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. 492 pgs.

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Shaftesbury's Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was 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...
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Shaftesbury's Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was 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 Understanding and Addison and Steele's Spectator, it is a text of fundamental importance for understanding the thought and culture of Enlightenment Europe. This volume presents a new edition of the text together with an introduction, explanatory notes and a guide to further reading.
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Shaftesbury's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics: A Study in Enthusiasm » Read Now
by Stanley Grean. 296 pgs.

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Shaftesbury's Just Measure of Irony, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Richard B. Wolf. 21 pgs.

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Backgrounds of English Literature, 1700-1760 (Chap. 1 "Shaftesbury and the Ethical Poets in England") » Read Now
by Cecil A. Moore. 272 pgs.

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Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources ("Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)" begins on p. 191) » Read Now
by Michael G. Moran. 328 pgs.

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This reference provides critical overviews and bibliographic information for all major and many minor British and American rhetoricians of the eighteenth century.
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Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, Vol. 2 (Chap. 2 "Shaftesbury and the Defence of Natural Affection") » Read Now
by Isabel Rivers. 386 pgs.

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This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely-acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates what happened when attempts were made to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of...
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This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely-acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates what happened when attempts were made to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Her book pays close attention to the movement of ideas through the British Isles, and demonstrates the enormous influence of Shaftesbury's moral thought. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, this study makes a vital contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century thought.
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The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century (Chap. 1 "The Advent of Modern Ethics in Britain and the Emergence of the Idea of Moral Beauty") » Read Now
by Robert E. Norton. 316 pgs.

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The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770 (Chap. 4 "For Its Own Sake: Virtue and Agency in Early Eighteenth-Century England") » Read Now
by Scott Paul Gordon. 279 pgs.

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Challenging recent work contending that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, this study recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas...
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Challenging recent work contending that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, this study recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas of passivity from their roots in the non-conformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
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John Locke and the Problem of Depravity (Chap. 7 "Shaftesbury, Locke, and the Problem of the Moral Sense") » Read Now
by W. M. Spellman. 260 pgs.

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Closely examining Locke's view of original sin and its consequences for education in the early Enlightenment, Spellman here argues that Locke was much closer to traditional Protestant teaching than is generally recognized, and challenges the interpretation that sees Locke as advocating, through his...
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Closely examining Locke's view of original sin and its consequences for education in the early Enlightenment, Spellman here argues that Locke was much closer to traditional Protestant teaching than is generally recognized, and challenges the interpretation that sees Locke as advocating, through his philosophical and educational writings, the perfectibility of humankind.
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