Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… 1683-1700 (SE III 1). 2 . See Ainsworth Correspondence 406. In fact, 1698 is the year in which Shaftesbury’s thinking begins to crystalize. In August of that year he began his journal of philosophical reflections and exercises, the … practical writings of 'the Preacher of Good-nature', the Earl found corresponding theological ideas in defense of ' Kindness , Friendship , Sociableness , Love of Company and Converse , Natural Affection ' as the foundation of virtue, … such Stoic and Latitudinarian influences, Shaftesbury sees 'sociability [as] part of the divinely ordained plan for mankind'. 3 In fact, to become sociable is the telos of human life. 'True Learning', therefore, fundamentally involved the …
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