Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury was an influential early 18th-century English philosopher and moralist whose writings on virtue, aesthetics, and the moral sense helped shape the development of Enlightenment thought.

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instanceOf British peer
Earl
aesthetic theorist
human
moral philosopher
philosopher
birthDate 1671-02-26
birthPlace London, England
surface form: London
causeOfDeath tuberculosis
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Great Britain
deathDate 1713-02-15
deathPlace Naples
describedBySource Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of previously published treatises and essays
educatedAt Winchester College
familyName Ashley-Cooper
father Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury
fieldOfWork aesthetics
ethics
political philosophy
genre essay
moral philosophy
givenName Anthony
grandfather Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
influenced Adam Smith
David Hume
Enlightenment moral philosophy
Francis Hutcheson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
influencedBy John Locke
Platonism
Stoicism
memberOf House of Commons of England
House of Lords
mother Dorothy Manners
movement British moral sense school
Enlightenment philosophy
nativeLanguage English
nobleTitle Earl of Shaftesbury
notableIdea aesthetic moralism
moral sense theory
virtue as harmony
notableWork Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
occupation philosopher
politician
writer
positionHeld Member of Parliament for Poole
Member of Parliament for Stockbridge
publicationDate 1711
religion Anglicanism

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Francis Hutcheson influencedBy Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
English Whigs notableLeader Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
this entity surface form: Lord Shaftesbury
A System of Moral Philosophy influencedBy Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy influencedBy Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue influencedBy Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury