Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… 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 one is indeed wanting of knowledg’ ( … Cambridge Platonist Benjamin Whichcote. In the eminently practical writings of 'the Preacher of Good-nature', the Earl found corresponding theological ideas in defense of ' Kindness , Friendship , Sociableness , Love of … ’ ( Sensus Communis 56 [1.57]). In the Preface to Whichcote’s sermons, those who ' exploded the Principle of Good-nature ' or ' Publick-spiritedness ' are said to have 'made War ( if I may say so ) even on Vertue it self ' (56). Such …
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