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Author Shaftesbury, Lord

Title Shaftesbury : Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (532 pages)
Series Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text; Preface; A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm to My Lord; Sensus Communis, an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour in a Letter to a Friend; Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author; An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit; The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody, Being a Recital of Certain Conversations on Natural and Moral Subjects; Miscellaneous Reflections on the Preceding Treatises and Other Critical Subjects; Index
Summary This important Enlightenment text ranges widely over ethics, aesthetics, religion, the arts, and ancient and modern history, and aims at nothing less than a new ideal of the gentleman. 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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Subject Philosophy -- Social aspects -- Early works to 1800
Philosophy -- Political aspects -- Early works to 1800
Ethics -- Early works to 1800
Social ethics -- Early works to 1800
Ethics
Philosophy -- Political aspects
Philosophy -- Social aspects
Social ethics
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Klein, Lawrence E
Ameriks, Karl
Clarke, Desmond M
ISBN 9780511053597
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9780511803284
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0521578922
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