The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-century BritainJohns Hopkins University Press, 2000 - 250 Seiten What is the relationship between the self and society? Where do moral judgements come from? As Blakey Vermeule demonstrates in this discussion, such questions about sociability and moral philosophy were central to 18th-century writers and artists. Vermeule focuses on a group of aesthetically complicated moral texts: Alexander Pope's character sketches and Dunciad, Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, and David Hume's self-consciously theatrical writings on pride and his autobiographical writings on religious melancholia. These writers and their characters confronted familiar social dilemmas - sexual desire, gender identity, family relations, cheating, ambition, status, rivalry and shame - and responded by developing a practical ethics about their own behaviour at the same time that they refined their moral judgements of others. |
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... character of hu- man consciousness emerged simultaneously in the evolution of our species . Since I have grounded morality in the special character of human consciousness - in partic- ular , in its reflective nature - I take these ...
... character of hu- man consciousness emerged simultaneously in the evolution of our species . Since I have grounded morality in the special character of human consciousness - in partic- ular , in its reflective nature - I take these ...
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... characters seems to consist in their being struck at an heat , and in a peculiar smartness and turn , which ought , if possible , to be preserved in every sentence . If the reader is diverted in the midst of a character , and his at ...
... characters seems to consist in their being struck at an heat , and in a peculiar smartness and turn , which ought , if possible , to be preserved in every sentence . If the reader is diverted in the midst of a character , and his at ...
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... character he is representing , and how his character motivates the mental or physical states of his audience - are firmly linked , indeed inseparable , in the minds of eighteenth - century writers . The strand most analogous to Hume's ...
... character he is representing , and how his character motivates the mental or physical states of his audience - are firmly linked , indeed inseparable , in the minds of eighteenth - century writers . The strand most analogous to Hume's ...
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The Art of Obligation | 29 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 229 |
Urheberrecht | |
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