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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... sense , comes to seem an aesthetic , or even literary affair in the sense described by Alvin Kernan : " Discussions of litera- ture ... seem to assume that literary texts , old or new , differ from other types of texts in being self ...
... sense , comes to seem an aesthetic , or even literary affair in the sense described by Alvin Kernan : " Discussions of litera- ture ... seem to assume that literary texts , old or new , differ from other types of texts in being self ...
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... sense , we are as likely to be gripped by a sense of estrangement ( about our internal attributes ) as we are to feel the impression of pride . And in the less typical case of our being proud of external objects , this feeling of ...
... sense , we are as likely to be gripped by a sense of estrangement ( about our internal attributes ) as we are to feel the impression of pride . And in the less typical case of our being proud of external objects , this feeling of ...
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... sense perception upon idealism as violence ( alarming the " illuded sense " and marring the " golden dream " ) , why does he figure such an intrusion as both a team of do- mesticated animals and a castrating woodsman ? In part , the ...
... sense perception upon idealism as violence ( alarming the " illuded sense " and marring the " golden dream " ) , why does he figure such an intrusion as both a team of do- mesticated animals and a castrating woodsman ? In part , the ...
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The Art of Obligation | 29 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 229 |
Urheberrecht | |
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