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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… and his authoritative personality, he transformed Bath into a place of fashion and sociability: ‘Regularity repressed pride, and that lessened, people of fortune became fit for society’ (Goldsmith 40). The son of a Welsh gentleman, Nash …Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political and Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]
… of trust can only be enforced by covenants of the sword, and through education that favours sociable qualities over pride, which fosters a state of war. A fifth law of nature, is COMPLAISANCE; that is to say, that every man strive to …Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… Revolution, in Ireland in the 1730s. 8 The Jacobites crafted elaborate rituals of loyalty in which toasting took pride of place. The sociability of British Jacobites linked by kinship bonds, political patronage networks, espionage …Scottish Enlightenment [ Political and Moral philosophy ]
… 9 Sociability and politeness, in this sense, were outcomes of an evolutionary moral history driven by selfishness and pride. Smith, for his part, did not deny that human nature was a compound of both selfish and sociable principles, but …Pagination
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