… ‘moral sense’ theory. While it is notoriously difficult to gauge Shaftesbury’s impact on later writers and intellectual traditions, he has been widely read throughout the eighteenth century and beyond, and the legacy of his insistence on … Morals and Society. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Barton, Roman Alexander,'Lord Shaftesbury and the Ancient Traditions of Sympathy', in Roman Alexander Barton (ed.), The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination: Transformations of … Morals and Society. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Barton, Roman Alexander,'Lord Shaftesbury and the Ancient Traditions of Sympathy', in Roman Alexander Barton (ed.), The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination: Transformations of …