Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… Enthusiast (SE II 1); An Inquiry Concerning Virtue (both the 1698 and later versions; SE II 2); Preface to Select Sermons of Dr Whichcot and Ainsworth Correspondence (SE II 4); Askêmata (II 6); Correspondence 1683-1700 (SE III 1). 2 . … of the concept of sociability. In the same year, Shaftesbury published his first work, an edited collection of Select Sermons by the Latitudinarian-minded Cambridge Platonist Benjamin Whichcote. In the eminently practical writings of 'the … us to the Love of what was without or beyond ‘ our-selves ’ ( 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 …
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