The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-century BritainJohns Hopkins University Press, 2000 - 250 pàgines 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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... hand with the drawing leads us to recon- sider the whole problem of hands . They are instruments of individuation , in- deed of the division of labor : scientist , artist , soldier , and - as the hand on the table might suggest ...
... hand with the drawing leads us to recon- sider the whole problem of hands . They are instruments of individuation , in- deed of the division of labor : scientist , artist , soldier , and - as the hand on the table might suggest ...
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... hand a cup “ full of indignation , ” in which a burning heart declares itself to be “ zealous for my countries ruin . " From his left hand dangles a placard with verses from Ezekiel 22 and 23 : “ Thou has greedily gained of thy ...
... hand a cup “ full of indignation , ” in which a burning heart declares itself to be “ zealous for my countries ruin . " From his left hand dangles a placard with verses from Ezekiel 22 and 23 : “ Thou has greedily gained of thy ...
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... hands as high as his head , the right arm more bent and the hand lower , and the fingers apart ; his mouth is open : thus he stands rooted to the spot , with legs apart , but no loss of dignity , supported by his friends who are better ...
... hands as high as his head , the right arm more bent and the hand lower , and the fingers apart ; his mouth is open : thus he stands rooted to the spot , with legs apart , but no loss of dignity , supported by his friends who are better ...
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The Art of Obligation | 29 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 229 |
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