Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: v.2 (Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: v.2 This text is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics. It was influential on 18th-century British taste and manners, literature, and thought, and also on the continental Enlightenment.
Full description- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Published: 27 May 1999
- Format: Hardback 404 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Literary Studies: General | History Of Ideas | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780198123774 ISBN 10: 0198123779
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Full description for Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: v.2
Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of treatises on interconnected themes in moral philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and politics. It was immensely influential on eighteenth-century British taste and manners, literature, and thought, and also on the Continental Enlightenment. The author was a Whig, a Stoic, and a theist, whose commitment to political liberty and civic virtue shaped all of his other concerns, from the role of the arts in a free state to the nature of the beautiful and the good. This is the first new edition of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks as a coherent collection for almost a century. A substantial Introduction discusses Shaftesbury's works and ideas in the context of his times, and traces the reception and influence of his writings through the eighteenth century and beyond. A full and scholarly commentary is provided, as well as a complete textual apparatus. The very thorough Index is Shaftesbury's own. The text is essentially that of the first edition of 1711, as marked up with changes by Shaftesbury himself in preparation for the posthumous second edition of 1714; and the striking emblematic engravings he commissioned especially for the second edition are incorporated.
