Title Virtue transformed : political argument in England, 1688-1740 / Shelley Burtt

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Description ix, 182 pages ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The politics of virtue in Augustan England -- 3. A religious politics of virtue: Low Church Anglicanism and the Societies for Reformation of Manners -- 4. A republican politics of virtue: the selfish citizen in Cato's Letters -- 5. Bolingbroke's politics of virtue -- 6. The Court Whig conception of civic virtue -- 7. A world without virtue: Mandeville's social and political thought -- 8. Virtue transformed -- Bibliography -- Index Analysis England Politics Ethics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index Subject Political ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Political ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. LC no. 91027095 ISBN 0521375282 (hardcover)

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