Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… , Friendship , Sociableness , Love of Company and Converse , Natural Affection ' as the foundation of virtue, genuine religion, and happiness ( Preface 58 and 50). Amalgamating such Stoic and Latitudinarian influences, Shaftesbury sees … natural affections and capacity for rationality, leading to persecution and violence: 'the melancholy way of treating Religion is that which, according to my Apprehension, renders it so tragical, and is the occasion of its acting in … criticism thus connected ethics and politics. 5 . See Lawrence E. Klein, ´Shaftesbury, Politeness and the Politics of Religion’, in N. Phillipson and Q. Skinner (ed.), Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge …
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