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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Third Earl of Shaftesbury"”.
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„I feel, I feel the Deity within“ – Händels Oratorien und ihr Publikum
… Philosophie 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 …
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Sea-Cards for the Impetuous Muse: A Reading of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks
<p><italic>Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times,</italic> 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 …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
This thesis traces the development of the notion of 'moral sense' from the midseventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth century. Its roots are in the moral writings of some of the Cambridge Platonists, it flourished as a moral theory with Francis Hutcheson in the 1720s, and it had many supporters …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
This thesis traces the development of the notion of 'moral sense' from the midseventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth century. Its roots are in the moral writings of some of the Cambridge Platonists, it flourished as a moral theory with Francis Hutcheson in the 1720s, and it had many supporters …
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
This study examines the development of theories of civil religion in Hanoverian Britain. In the aftermath of the seventeenth-century wars of religion, theorists of civil religion sought to render Protestant Christianity a faith whose ecclesiology was compatible with the civil state and whose …
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Virtue, God and necessity: a study of the metaphysical background of Shaftesbury's ethical thought
… is an attempt to examine and to trace a genesis of, and thereby to explicate, some of the important ideas of an eighteenth century thinker named Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Shaftesbury’s tremendous influence can be roughly gauged by the eleven editions of his …
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Women writers, religious rhetoric, and the origins of sensibility in England, 1660-1754
… Christianity shaped the feminist arguments of women writers of the long eighteenth century and the impact these women writers had on the mid-century sentimental novel. By analyzing the complex relationships between religion and feminism, this dissertation traces a tradition of …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
<p>While some might consider epistolary novels of the long-eighteenth century as the sentimental purview of women readers, this research proposes that many of these epistolary novels serve as powerful markers in the gender wars of this era. While an overall sense of optimism pervaded Britain’s …