Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… extended treatment of the term. People > Philosophy People > Art and Literature People > Aristocracy Keywords Affection Catholicism Cosmopolitanism Enlightenment Manners Politeness Whigs Wit Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury … Principles' of that 'most malignant party', 8 the Tories, whose absolutist political theory and flirtation with Roman Catholicism could only lead to a dogmatic ' total Apostacy from all Candour, Equity, Trust, Sociableness, or Friendship' … in the aftermath of the Civil War. With the War of the Spanish Succession raging on the Continent, Shaftesbury saw Catholicism on the rise and therefore an urgent need to provide a solid philosophical justification of what he regarded …
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