Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… University Press, 1994), pp. 76-80. Shaftesbury even erected a so-called 'Philosopher’s Tower' on the family’s estate (several hundred yards removed from the ancestral seat) which probably enabled him to retire for philosophical … polite conversation' (Müller 211). In fact, this was Shaftesbury's ideal of the (Whig) public figure as a philosopher-statesman meant to guarantee political stability by fostering the 'Passion or Affection towards Society'. 6 Indeed, the … is any Obligation on Man to act sociably [...] in a form`d Government; and not in that which is commonly call`d the State of Nature ' ( Sensus Communis, 76 [1.68-9]). For the Earl, Hobbes's theory of humankind's natural unsociability …
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