Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Letter concerning enthusiasm to my Lord. Sensus communis; an essay on the freedom of wit and humour. Soliloquy or Advice to an author. An inquiry concerning virtue or merit
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Letter concerning enthusiasm to my Lord *****. Sensus communis; an essay on the freedom of with and humour. Soliloquy or Advice to an author. An inquiry concerning virtue or merit
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, Or Merit
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006579
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A letter concerning enthusiasm. Sensus communis; an essay on the freedom of wit and humour. Soliloquy, or advice to an author
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy
Author: Lydia B. AmirPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438449372
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications. By exploring the works of both Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Søren Kierkegaard, Lydia B. Amir finds a rich tapestry of ideas about the comic, the tragic, humor, and related concepts such as irony, ridicule, and wit. Amir focuses chiefly on these two thinkers, but she also includes Johann Georg Hamann, an influence of Kierkegaard’s who was himself influenced by Shaftesbury. All three thinkers were devout Christians but were intensely critical of the organized Christianity of their milieux, and humor played an important role in their responses. The author examines the epistemological, ethical, and religious roles of humor in their philosophies and proposes a secular philosophy of humor in which humor helps attain the philosophic ideals of self-knowledge, truth, rationality, virtue, and wisdom, as well as the more ambitious goals of liberation, joy, and wisdom.
Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521578929
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This book, first published in 2000, presents an edition of one of the most important texts of the Enlightenment.
Peerage of England
Author: Arthur CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed
Author: Arthur COLLINS (Genealogist)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Peerage of England
Author: Arthur CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Uncivil Mirth
Author: Ross CarrollPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691241775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justice The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This new vogue for ridicule unleashed moral panic and prompted warnings that it would corrupt public debate. But ridicule also had vocal defenders who saw it as a means to expose hypocrisy, unsettle the arrogant, and deflate the powerful. Uncivil Mirth examines how leading thinkers of the period searched for a humane form of ridicule, one that served the causes of religious toleration, the abolition of the slave trade, and the dismantling of patriarchal power. Ross Carroll brings to life a tumultuous age in which the place of ridicule in public life was subjected to unparalleled scrutiny. He shows how the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, far from accepting ridicule as an unfortunate byproduct of free public debate, refashioned it into a check on pretension and authority. Drawing on philosophical treatises, political pamphlets, and conduct manuals of the time, Carroll examines how David Hume, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others who came after Shaftesbury debated the value of ridicule in the fight against intolerance, fanaticism, and hubris. Casting Enlightenment Britain in an entirely new light, Uncivil Mirth demonstrates how the Age of Reason was also an Age of Ridicule, and speaks to our current anxieties about the lack of civility in public debate.