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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... moralist is quick to correct us if we find this comic or benign . If Sav- age only deceives himself to “ alleviate the loss or want of fortune , ” his gift might be mentioned as an instance of the " philosophical mind " that Johnson ...
... moralist is quick to correct us if we find this comic or benign . If Sav- age only deceives himself to “ alleviate the loss or want of fortune , ” his gift might be mentioned as an instance of the " philosophical mind " that Johnson ...
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... moralist has already harshly discounted Savage's honesty by piling it with skepticism and scorn . Here is the moralist opining on the “ value ” of Sav- age's friendship ( a passage that , as it happens , appears right before the passage ...
... moralist has already harshly discounted Savage's honesty by piling it with skepticism and scorn . Here is the moralist opining on the “ value ” of Sav- age's friendship ( a passage that , as it happens , appears right before the passage ...
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... moralist . Having something to lose if free- riders dominate the system , the moralist seeks to advance his own interests under the cover of objectivity . He may feel guilty , like an anxious fraud who himself will be exposed . He may ...
... moralist . Having something to lose if free- riders dominate the system , the moralist seeks to advance his own interests under the cover of objectivity . He may feel guilty , like an anxious fraud who himself will be exposed . He may ...
Inhalt
The Art of Obligation | 29 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 229 |
Urheberrecht | |
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