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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… to other seminal ideas in Shaftesbury's thought, such as politeness, toleration, liberty, and cosmopolitanism. Given the influence of the Earl's thought across Europe, any account of the decidedly British contribution to Enlightenment … foundation of virtue, genuine religion, and happiness ( Preface 58 and 50). Amalgamating such Stoic and Latitudinarian influences, Shaftesbury sees 'sociability [as] part of the divinely ordained plan for mankind'. 3 In fact, to become … to other seminal ideas in Shaftesbury's thought, such as politeness, toleration, liberty, and cosmopolitanism. Given the influence of the Earl's thought across Europe, any account of the decidedly British contribution to Enlightenment …
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… on his ideas relating to sociability. 1 Even so, there are elements of his life that are worth highlighting for the influence they may have exerted on his own sociability and his attitudes towards it. One important step was his decision … Lawrence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), p.27, 31. For all his reputation as a figure central to the moderating influence of The Spectator , Steele could also be a highly partisan polemicist on behalf of the Whigs (he wrote 25 … signal of defiance against the controversial Peerage Bill which he saw as endangering the constitution by expanding the influence of the House of Lords) saw only occasional room for the mass of the people on whose labour and service polite …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… rise of their own Accord’ ( The Spectator , n° 57, 5 May 1711). In this way, Addison’s sociable ideal had an important influence on later theorists of polite sociability, such as David Hume, who also believed that heterosociability was a …
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