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Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]

… that made for civilization were distorted into manifestations of madness. Places > Health Mots-clés Insanity Confinement Punishment Entertainement Bedlam Satire On 17 January 1852, Charles Dickens published in Household Words an article, ‘A … all activities that made for civilization were distorted into manifestations of madness. … Insanity … Confinement … Punishment … Entertainement … Bedlam … Satire … Bethlem Hospital …

Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]

… without permission – also involved sociability. The most common motivations to leave the plantation were to evade punishment or to seek food, since slaves were notoriously under-nourished. 4  There was a wide range of the practice. … practice. Petit marronage involved leaving the plantation temporarily, often to visit friends or family, evade work or punishments, or extend holiday festivities. These maroons sometimes created networks of underground trade, exchanging … a chain of intermediaries could be involved to placate the slave owner or manager. The success in mitigating the punishment depended on the strength of the social relationships that spanned the plantation hierarchy, from slave to …

Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]

… ( Ainsworth Correspondence 404). Likewise, in Locke’s effort to motivate moral behavior by appealing to rewards and punishments meted out by God, Shaftesbury saw not virtue but craven, fearful self-interest: 'nothing which naturally drew … understanding of 'virtue' linked Locke and Hobbes to High Church Anglican Tories. Appeals to the fear of God’s punishment led, Shaftesbury claimed, to a distortion of humans' understanding of the divine and of themselves, with …

David Hume [ Philosophy ]

… even feared : ‘We can form no wish, which has not a reference to society. A perfect solitude is, perhaps, the greatest punishment we can suffer’. (Hume,  Treatise , 234) In that ‘positive cycle of sophistication of our tastes and learning’, …

Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… ‘poet’. Melancholy is dangerous. Melancholy, to the extent that it is a product of self-indulgence, can also be its own punishment: the melancholy man removes himself increasingly from company, friends and family, from all that makes living …

Street sociability [ Cities ]

… now be thought of as muggings on city streets – in which intra-class conflict was played out. 12 The rewards and awful punishments meted out reflect anxiety about who one might meet on the streets. 10 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban …