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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… London, NPG 4452, 1785. Résumé After a restricted childhood, Boswell as a young man broke out to become a hard-drinking womaniser and dedicated socialiser. He also devoted considerable time to seeking out the company of great men, not least the famous Samuel Johnson. He enjoyed, too, the company of intelligent … women in terms of sociability rather than for sexual pleasure. He was a depressive, often connected to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for sociability. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés alcool Depression Charm …
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Laughter [ Communication ]
… periodical to the topic of laughter. He cast it as one of the defining characteristics of human experience. Humankind, he wrote, ‘is a rational animal, a tool-making animal, a cooking animal’ and, crucially, ‘a laughing animal’. The chief importance of laughter, however, was in sociability: it was …
Humour | Impoliteness | Laughter | Manners | Politeness | Taste | Wit
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… Her sociable life in Britain’s major social centers, London and Bath, enabled her to use her closeness to the bluestocking circle and later her membership of the evangelical group, the Clapham Sect, to embark on crusades against poverty, … People > Religion & Philanthropy Practices > Politics & Society Practices > Religious Belief Mots-clés Bluestockings Charity Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women Hannah … 1 There, thanks to her friends’ letters of introduction, she rubbed shoulders with the literati of the bluestocking circle, dominated by Mrs Montagu of whom she quickly became a protégée . It is undoubtedly her status as a …
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… 1683-1700 (SE III 1). 2 . See Ainsworth Correspondence 406. In fact, 1698 is the year in which Shaftesbury’s thinking begins to crystalize. In August of that year he began his journal of philosophical reflections and exercises, the … practical writings of 'the Preacher of Good-nature', the Earl found corresponding theological ideas in defense of ' Kindness , Friendship , Sociableness , Love of Company and Converse , Natural Affection ' as the foundation of virtue, … such Stoic and Latitudinarian influences, Shaftesbury sees 'sociability [as] part of the divinely ordained plan for mankind'. 3 In fact, to become sociable is the telos of human life. 'True Learning', therefore, fundamentally involved the …
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… stoic literary persona provided an example of polite sociability. Addison (or at least the Addisonian ideal) became the kind of person that others strived to emulate in the eighteenth century. He served as a role model. By the early 1760s, … boasted of having spent much time ‘with the wits’, recalled that ‘Addison was the best company in the world’. When looking back upon his time as a part of Addison’s London literary circle during the last years of Anne’s reign, Alexander … interactions between men and women improved the manners of both sexes. He thought that ‘women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blow up in them those …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Image J. Russell, ‘Map of Scotland’, Wellcome Library, 576763i, 1804. Résumé The Scottish Enlightenment is an epoch-making intellectual current within the European history of sociability. First, this is an exceptional blending of the … the Company and Conversation of our Fellow-Creatures, to render them a proper Exercise for the Mind: And this brings Mankind together in Society, where every one displays his Thoughts and Observations in the best Manner he is able, and … trauma caused by the deprivation of Edinburgh’s status as the capital of an independent state stimulated new ways of thinking about patriotism, citizenship, and progress that had deep implications for both theories and practices of …
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