Unnatural Affections

Download or read book Unnatural Affections written by George E. Haggerty and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Haggerty examines the 'unnatural' affections that defy cultural taboos and challenge what are seen as natural boundaries to desire. Such affections abound in 18th century novels offering understanding into gender and female desire.

Download or read book Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis written by Maurer Christian Maurer and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawn of the Enlightenment saw heated debates on self-love. Do people only act out of self-interest? Or is there a less pessimistic explanation for human behaviour? Maurer delves into the contributions to these debates from both famous and lesser known authors, including Lord Shaftesbury, Bernard Mandeville, Francis Hutcheson, Joseph Butler, Archibald Campbell, David Hume and Adam Smith, and puts them in their philosophical, theological and economic context. Maurer identifies five distinct conceptions of self-love and looks at their role within theories of human psychology and morality while drawing attention to the heuristic limits of our contemporary notion of egoism. He compares the central arguments and the different strategies intended to morally rehabilitate human nature and self-love before and during the Enlightenment.

Download or read book Characteristicks written by Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1743 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Secret Chain written by Michael Bradie and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Concept of Affectivity in Early Modern Philosophy written by Ádám Smrcz and published by Gyöngyösi Megyer. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no need to argue for the relevance of affectivity in early modern philosophy. When doing research and conceptualizing affectivity in this period, we hope to attain a basicinterpretive framework for philosophy in general, one that is independent of and cutting across such unfruitful divisions as the time-honored interpretive distinction between “rationalists” and “empiricists”, which we consider untenable when applied to 17th-century thinkers. Our volume consists of papers based on the contributions to the First Budapest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, held on 14–15 October 2016 at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. When composing this volume, our aim was not to present a systematic survey of affectivity in early modern philosophy. Rather, our more modest goal was to foster collaboration among researchers working in different countries and different traditions. Many of the papers published here are already in implicit or explicit dialogue with others. We hope that they will generate more of an exchange of ideas in the broader field of early modern scholarship.

Download or read book An inquiry concerning virtue and merit. The moralists; a philosophical rhapsody written by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1727 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. 6 Ed written by Earl of Shaftesbury Cooper (Anthony-Ashley) and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: