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David Hume [ Philosophy ]

… clubs and societies in Scotland and London, then at Hume’s participation in the Republic of Letters, and finally at philosophy as the practice of sociability. People > Philosophy Keywords Philosophy Clubs Societies Salons Scottish Enlightenment Edinburgh London Paris Republic of Letters essay David Hume’s …

Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]

… partly be succeeded by historical sociology developed in the post-Enlightenment period. Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy Keywords Moral philosophy Manners Politeness Improvement commerce Cosmopolitanism Britishness Public sphere Urbanity Gender In his 1742 … writing produced in eighteenth-century Scotland. The issue of sociability was far more than a technical debate in moral philosophy, or a binary controversy about the primacy of selfishness or sociability in human nature. As much excellent …

Friendship [ Social interaction / Character / Feelings & Emotions ]

… public selfhood. Concepts > Social interaction Concepts > Character Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Keywords Language Philosophy Idealism Literature Stowe Clarissa Family Morality The language of friendship was close to ubiquitous in Enlightenment Britain. Beyond the works of fiction and treatises of social philosophy which explored it most extensively, it was also invoked figuratively, informing contemporary understandings of … of the era’s relationship to classical precedent and its understanding of private versus public selfhood. … Language … Philosophy … Idealism … Literature … Stowe … Clarissa … Family … Morality … Friendship …

Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]

… Abstract Thomas Hobbes’ rejection of the social nature of man is the foundation of his philosophy on the origin of State, and provides a rationale for his theory of absolute sovereignty. The refutation of … and suspicion—and ranked morality and politeness behind the virtue of obedience. Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy People > Philosophy Keywords Civility Friendship Hobbes Sovereignty Violence War The refutation of natural sociability The …

Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]

Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]

… ‘sociability’ must remain incomplete without an understanding of his extended treatment of the term. People > Philosophy People > Art and Literature People > Aristocracy Keywords Politeness toleration virtue Wit Whig Manners … the concept of sociability for thinkers in both Great Britain and the Continent. The concept lay at the core of his philosophy of life and permeates his published writings. He understood sociability both as a natural human impulse and as … vital to illuminate the causes for his interest in the idea a s well as its significance within the wider scope of his philosophy, particularly his ethical and political thought. The first traces of the concept can be found in the young …