The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-century BritainJohns Hopkins University Press, 2000 - Počet stran: 250 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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... particular woman , a particular man , a particular professional distinc- tion . . . . The keen sensitivity with which people detect the flaws of their rivals is one of nature's wonders . It takes a Herculean effort to control this ...
... particular woman , a particular man , a particular professional distinc- tion . . . . The keen sensitivity with which people detect the flaws of their rivals is one of nature's wonders . It takes a Herculean effort to control this ...
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... particular to the general is a Whartonian procedure . Wharton be- comes “ all things to all men " by adopting their characteristics . So forceful is the disparity between the overall theory of the ruling passion and its particular ...
... particular to the general is a Whartonian procedure . Wharton be- comes “ all things to all men " by adopting their characteristics . So forceful is the disparity between the overall theory of the ruling passion and its particular ...
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... particular victims of this kind of irony ) . This complex oscillation between opacity and awareness as a means , not of avoiding , but of describing the inexorability of melancholia is Cowper's strat- egy even in his more lucid or ...
... particular victims of this kind of irony ) . This complex oscillation between opacity and awareness as a means , not of avoiding , but of describing the inexorability of melancholia is Cowper's strat- egy even in his more lucid or ...
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The Art of Obligation | 29 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 229 |
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