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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Shaftesbury"”.
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Virtue, God and necessity: a study of the metaphysical background of Shaftesbury's ethical thought
… named Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Shaftesbury’s tremendous influence can be roughly gauged by the eleven editions of his <em>Characteristics</em> which were published between the years 1711 and 1790 (Locke’s <em>Essay</em> had nineteen editions in about the same …
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Sea-Cards for the Impetuous Muse: A Reading of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks
… by Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, marks an important dissent from the general trend of early modern philosophy. This dissertation argues that Shaftesbury's book undertakes a restoration of the classical understanding of philosophy in contradistinction to the …
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"The Perfect Scheme of it in his Head...:" Shaftesbury's Carolina Design in the Context of England's Atlantic Economy
… for entering into this charter agreement, Lord Shaftesbury being the most inspired. This thesis explores his compulsions in the design and development of a new export market for this region, in the context of England's pre- and post-Restoration Atlantic economy. It suggests that far from a …
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A CRITICAL OLD-SPELLING EDITION OF APHRA BEHN'S "THE CITY HEIRESS"
… of the Whigs and its caricature of The Earl of Shaftesbury, but more important as Behn's most definitive statement about women. In this play, employing what Laura Brown calls "dramatic social satire," Behn reverses the comic resolution one usually finds in Restoration comedies, in which the …
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„I feel, I feel the Deity within“ – Händels Oratorien und ihr Publikum
… des Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, im Prinzip nicht zu verstehen sind. Durch diese Verknüpfung biblischen Rohmaterials mit freidenkerischer Philosophie wird deutlich, dass Händels Oratorien zur Erziehung des Menschen zu einem sozial integrierten Individuum beitragen, das …
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Musica come Scienza dell'uomo. I caratteri del sapere musicale nel Settecento britannico
… (from John Locke, Joseph Addison and Lord Shaftesbury, to Lord Kames and Adam Smith), and we will examine their thoughts on music. In the second one we will deal with musical sources (from the Treatise of Musick of Alexander Malcom, to the Histories of Music of Charles Burney and John …
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British reaction to the opium trade, 1839-1860
… second war. This was particularly true of Lord Shaftesbury, the head of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade. In 1843, Shaftesbury had introduced an anti-opium motion in the House of Commons. By the late 1850s, he was much more critical of the Chinese and admitted in Parliament …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… form that it had held since the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson. One of the important assessments of this period in the history of British moral philosophy, David Norton's From Moral Sense to Common-Sense: An Essay on the Development of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy of 1966 (revised …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… form that it had held since the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson. One of the important assessments of this period in the history of British moral philosophy, David Norton's From Moral Sense to Common-Sense: An Essay on the Development of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy of 1966 (revised …
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
… including Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury, John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Edward Gibbon, and David Hume, alongside clergymen such as Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, William Warburton, bishop of Gloucester, and Conyers Middleton. It considers …
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From Virtue to Sympathy: Perspectives in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature on the Disintegration of the Social Bond
… of the early to mid-eighteenth century -- Shaftesbury, Frances Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith. Subtle differences in the way they describe human response to the circumstances of another reflect an increasing awareness of distinctive rather than shared experience.
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… of linguistic "fire," the act recognised by Shaftesbury as a ''Breach of Omnipotence."
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Women writers, religious rhetoric, and the origins of sensibility in England, 1660-1754
… especially her response to the third Earl of Shaftesbury, and argues that her High Church Anglican attacks on the often misogynist and socially exclusionary rhetoric of deist writers constitute a crucial aspect of her feminism. Chapter Three examines two distinct periods in the career of …
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The Art of Cognition: British Empiricism and Victorian Aesthetics
… the philosophy of John Locke and the Earl of Shaftesbury, the art criticism of John Ruskin, the fiction of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, and the anthropological scholarship of J.G. Frazer. They represent a spectrum of views about the relationship between empiricism and idealism, and degrees …
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Investigating the Provenance, Organisation and Themes of Erfurt, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, I. 81
… copyist’s location (somewhere between Bodmin and Shaftesbury) and made its way to Thetford. At an early stage in its history, the manuscript was used as a source by the author of the Cathalogus sanctorum in Anglia pausancium, a catalogue of saints’ resting-places: the Cathalogus’ debt to the …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… as John Locke, the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Joseph Butler, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham—sparked the imaginations of some of the era’s top epistolary novelists who dramatized their philosophical theories in fictional moral experiments. This project investigates how …