Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… desire to entertain and instruct, he sought to bring men and women out of closets ‘to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses’. 1 Like many of his contemporaries, he believed that sociability was both natural and … did not come without its consequences. This view was heavily indebted to the ethics of Aristotle and Plato, and the teachings of Cicero and the Stoics, who all emphasised civic society above the individual. The dominant view among …
Conversation | Emotions | Gender | Melancholy | Politeness | Privacy | Religion
Encyclopedia