Author: Robert BURROWPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Meletemata Darringtoniana. An essay upon Divine Providence, etc
Author: Robert BURROWCatalogue of Printed Books
Author: A-Cht
Author: Dr. Williams's LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Meletemata Darringtoniana. An Essay Upon Divine Providence with a Particular View to Its Symmetry in Reference to the Natural, and More Especially to the Moral World. By Robert Burrow L.L.D.
Author: Robert BurrowPublisher:
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Category : Providence and government of God
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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New Letters of David Hume
Author: David HumePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199693234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This volume, first published in 1954, is one of three presenting the correspondence of David Hume. It collects letters from 1737 to 1776 which do not appear in J. Y. T. Greig's two volumes of 1932, and offers a rich picture of the man and his age. The correspondents include such famous thinkers as Adam Smith, James Boswell, and Benjamin Franklin.
The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume
Author: Adam PotkayPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501732102
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both denoted a living oratorical art and served as a major factor in political thought. Seeing Hume's philosophy as a key to the literature of the mid-eighteenth century, Adam Potkay compares the staus of eloquence in Hume's Essays and Natural History of Religion to its status in novels by Sterne, poems by Pope and Gray, and Macpherson's Poems of Ossian. Potkay explains the sense of urgency that the concept of eloquence evoked among eighteenth-century British readers, for whom it recalled Demosthenes exhorting Athenian citizens to oppose tyranny. Revived by Hume and many other writers, the concept of eloquence resonated deeply for an audience who perceived its own political community as being in danger of disintegration. Potkay also shows how, beginning in the realm of literature, the fashion of polite style began to eclipse that of political eloquence. An ethos suitable both to the family circle and to a public sphere that included women, "politeness" entailed a sublimation of passions, a "feminine modesty as opposed to "masculine" display, and a style that sought rather to placate or stabilize than to influence the course of events. For Potkay, the tension between the ideals of ancient eloquence and of modern politeness defined literary and political discourses alike between 1726 and 1770: although politeness eventually gained ascendancy, eloquence was never silenced.
Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves
Author: Michael MoriartyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199291039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves is an investigation of psychological and ethical thought in seventeenth-century France, emphasizing both continuities and discontinuities with ancient and medieval thought. Michael Moriarty's examination discusses most of the period's major authors, some well-known, others less so: the abstract and general analyses of philosophers and theologians (Descartes, Jansenius, Malebranche) are juxtaposed with the less systematic and more concrete investigations of writers like Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld, not to mention the theatre of Corneille, Moliere, and Racine. This study will be of interest to all researchers working in early modern French literature and in the history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800
Author: J. G. A. PocockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521574983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.
Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness
Author: Jenny DavidsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139452320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. In the debate about the balance between truthfulness and politeness, Davidson argues that eighteenth-century writers from Locke to Austen come down firmly on the side of politeness. This is the case even when it is associated with dissimulation or hypocrisy. These writers argue that the open profession of vice is far more dangerous for society than even the most glaring discrepancies between what people say in public and what they do in private. This book explores what happens when controversial arguments in favour of hypocrisy enter the mainstream, making it increasingly hard to tell the difference between hypocrisy and more obviously attractive qualities like modesty, self-control and tact.
Virtue Transformed
Author: Shelley G. BurttPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521375282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This book challenges the received notions of the fortunes of virtue and the politics of virtue today.