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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… The World of Hannah More (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996), p. 20. Three cities, as renowned sociable spaces, shaped More’s personality: Bristol where her literary career was launched, London to which she made regular trips …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… modes of sociability forged in the nation’s debating clubs, universities, patriotic societies and comm ercial spaces in the wake of the 1707 Union. Even the outstanding individual achievements of philosophical legends such as Hume …
Britishness | Commerce | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Gender | Moral philosophy | Manners | Politeness | Public sphere
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… of Shaftesbury's moral and political philosophy, but, against the background of the ideologically charged War of the Spanish Succession, also an important adjunct to his now much more pronounced political partisanship: a sociable, … part of an agenda meant to achieve lasting political stability in the aftermath of the Civil War. With the War of the Spanish Succession raging on the Continent, Shaftesbury saw Catholicism on the rise and therefore an urgent need to …
Affection | Catholicism | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Manners | Politeness | Whigs | Wit
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