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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… at times criticizing his own party for its practices ( Correspondence, 207-8). At that time, following his calling in London, he made the acquaintance of several freethinkers (a group of writers he was, to his own dismay, later often … Characteristicks . 7 . Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, trans. revised by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (London: Bloomsburg, 2013), p. 23. In this most eclectic of philosophical works, sociability is not just part and parcel … Further Reading Axelsson, Karl, Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Barton, Roman Alexander,'Lord Shaftesbury and the Ancient Traditions of Sympathy', in …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… of sociable culture, which was rendered possible by refined urban settings in middle-scale cities, distinct from both London and Paris. Secondly, the Scottish Enlightenment unprecedentedly contributed to theorising sociability not only … correspondingly negative verdict on those people and situations he termed ‘ unsociable, ’ a quality he encountered in London and elsewhere and which prompted a degree of melancholy that made life almost unbearable. 2 But the passage also … many ways, and there continued to exist powerful networks of aristocratic patronage linking Edinburgh to the worlds of London and the wider empire throughout the eighteenth century. But it is true that the many societies, clubs, coffee …
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