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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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