The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-century BritainJohns Hopkins University Press, 2000 - 250 Seiten What is the relationship between the self and society? Where do moral judgements come from? As Blakey Vermeule demonstrates in this discussion, such questions about sociability and moral philosophy were central to 18th-century writers and artists. Vermeule focuses on a group of aesthetically complicated moral texts: Alexander Pope's character sketches and Dunciad, Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, and David Hume's self-consciously theatrical writings on pride and his autobiographical writings on religious melancholia. These writers and their characters confronted familiar social dilemmas - sexual desire, gender identity, family relations, cheating, ambition, status, rivalry and shame - and responded by developing a practical ethics about their own behaviour at the same time that they refined their moral judgements of others. |
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... practical ethics , shaped in first - person questions about what is best for them to do , and a moral stance on why others too should conform . Often their moral beliefs are drawn from wider religious or moral doctrines . Yet even then ...
... practical ethics , shaped in first - person questions about what is best for them to do , and a moral stance on why others too should conform . Often their moral beliefs are drawn from wider religious or moral doctrines . Yet even then ...
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... practical philoso- pher to a painter . The business of the anatomist is to explain what causes us to approve of virtue ; the business of a painter is to make virtue appealing . And Hume styles him- self a theoretical philosopher : his ...
... practical philoso- pher to a painter . The business of the anatomist is to explain what causes us to approve of virtue ; the business of a painter is to make virtue appealing . And Hume styles him- self a theoretical philosopher : his ...
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... practical criticism of poems with their theoretical assertions about them , but Wimsatt was one . He wrote three important theoretical pieces— “ The Intentional Fallacy , ” “ The Affective Fallacy , " and " The Concrete Universal " —all ...
... practical criticism of poems with their theoretical assertions about them , but Wimsatt was one . He wrote three important theoretical pieces— “ The Intentional Fallacy , ” “ The Affective Fallacy , " and " The Concrete Universal " —all ...
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The Art of Obligation | 29 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 229 |
Urheberrecht | |
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abstraction Addison aesthetic Alexander Pope argued audience Baier become beliefs Book cause century character Christine Korsgaard claims Colley Cibber conflict Corr Cowper critics culture David Hume Dennis describes Dryden Dunciad E. O. Wilson Edited eighteenth eighteenth-century emotion empiricist ethics evolutionary evolutionary psychology family thinking feeling figure formalist friends friendship Garrick Hayley Hayley's Hume Hume's theory idea imagination impressions interest Johnson judgment Kant Kantian kin selection kind literary meaning melancholy metonymy mind moral psychology moralist motives nature normative object obligation paradox Party of Humanity passion person philosophical play pleasure poem poem's poet poetry political Pope's portrait proper names question quoted readers reason reciprocal altruism reference relation relationship rhetorical Richard Richard Wollheim Rorty satire Savage Savage's seems self-interest sense skepticism social sociobiology spectator Steven Knapp sublime theatrical theory of pride things thought tion tradition turn virtue Wharton William William Hayley writes Wycherley
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