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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... ( quoted in Paul 1911 , 11 ) . Dennis's flattery was indeed effusive . He published a collection of familiar letters in 1696 to prove how intimately he was connected to Dryden , Congreve , and Wycherley . What strikes us in these letters ...
... ( quoted in Paul 1911 , 11 ) . Dennis's flattery was indeed effusive . He published a collection of familiar letters in 1696 to prove how intimately he was connected to Dryden , Congreve , and Wycherley . What strikes us in these letters ...
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... ( quoted in Monk [ 1935 ] 1960 , 3 ) . 9. We might think of Kant's account of the ambivalence of the imagination's “ de- light in the sublime " as part of a larger eighteenth - century concern with the aesthetic paradox of the pleasures ...
... ( quoted in Monk [ 1935 ] 1960 , 3 ) . 9. We might think of Kant's account of the ambivalence of the imagination's “ de- light in the sublime " as part of a larger eighteenth - century concern with the aesthetic paradox of the pleasures ...
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... ( quoted in Epstein 1986 , 149 ) . Six Pride's Reasons 1. For powerful reflections on this topic , see Dykstra 1996 . 2. Annette Baier ( 1991 , 17–18 ) has rendered a beautiful and convincing map nonetheless . 3. The term " pre - selected ...
... ( quoted in Epstein 1986 , 149 ) . Six Pride's Reasons 1. For powerful reflections on this topic , see Dykstra 1996 . 2. Annette Baier ( 1991 , 17–18 ) has rendered a beautiful and convincing map nonetheless . 3. The term " pre - selected ...
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The Art of Obligation | 29 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 229 |
Urheberrecht | |
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