Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (incl. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 1 illegible passage, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~100,000 words · 491 passages
Cite this work
- APAShaftesbury. (n.d.). Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (incl. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/shaftesbury/characteristicks-of-men-manners-opinions-times-incl-an-inquiry-concerning-virtue
- MLAShaftesbury. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (incl. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/shaftesbury/characteristicks-of-men-manners-opinions-times-incl-an-inquiry-concerning-virtue.
- ChicagoShaftesbury. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (incl. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/shaftesbury/characteristicks-of-men-manners-opinions-times-incl-an-inquiry-concerning-virtue.
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What it is about
Characteristicks (1711), with the Inquiry Concerning Virtue.
Context and history
Shaftesbury argues that we have a moral sense, a capacity to perceive good and evil akin to aesthetic taste, and that virtue needs neither divine punishment nor calculation of interest. The book founded a school in Scotland: Hutcheson and Hume come out of it, and Kant argues with it.
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or Sournefs in fuch a Being, befides the aclual fore-feeling of fomewhat of this kind within our-felves : and if we are afraid of brinQ-ing good Humour into Religion, or thinking with Freedom and Pleafantnefs on fuch a Subject as God; 'tis becaufe we conceive the Subject fo like our-felves, and can hardly have a Notion of Majejiy and Greatnefs, without Statelinefs and Morojenefs accompanying it.
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