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Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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Shaftesbury's Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was published in 1711. It ranges widely over ethics, aesthetics, religion, the arts (painting, literature, architecture, gardening), and ancient and modern history, and aims at nothing less than a new ideal of the gentleman. Together with Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Addison and Steele's Spectator, it is a text of fundamental importance for understanding the thought and culture of Enlightenment Europe. This volume

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Author
Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9780511803284
Category
philosophy
Subjects
Philosophy, History, Western
Updated
2026-03-25

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