Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… 1694, he accosted his former tutor John Locke as follows: ‘If there bee any one [...] who cannot see y t hee himself is a Rationall & Sociable Creature by his nature, & has an End to w ch he should refer his slightest actions; Such a … 1695, Shaftesbury was elected a member of the House of Commons. Although temperamentally a Whig, Shaftesbury prided himself in avoiding strict partisanship, at times criticizing his own party for its practices ( Correspondence, 207-8). At … conceptualized a cu ltural politics that sought to transform British society both ethically and politically. Against the self-interested individual theorized by Thomas Hobbes and Locke, Shaftesbury insisted on intrinsic human sociability: 'If …
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