Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of previously published treatises and essays

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Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a seminal early-18th-century philosophical work by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, that helped shape Enlightenment moral philosophy and aesthetics.

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instanceOf essay collection
philosophical work
treatise collection
author Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury NERFINISHED
Shaftesbury NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
describedAs influential work in early modern aesthetics
seminal work of Enlightenment moral philosophy
genre aesthetics
essay
moral philosophy
treatise
hasForm collection of essays
collection of previously published treatises
hasPart essays
treatises
historicalContext early Enlightenment in Britain
historicalSignificance contributed to development of modern aesthetics
helped shape Enlightenment moral philosophy
influenced British moral philosophy
Enlightenment ethics
concept of moral sense theory
mainSubject aesthetics
ethics
moral philosophy
political philosophy
movement Enlightenment
originalLanguage English
philosophicalFocus aesthetic judgment
relationship between virtue and happiness
role of sentiment in morality
philosophicalTradition British empiricism NERFINISHED
moral sense school
publicationCentury 18th century
publicationPeriod early 18th century
relatedTo British Enlightenment NERFINISHED
history of aesthetics
history of ethics
topic human character
manners
opinions
religion and morality
sociability
taste
virtue

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury describedBySource Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of previously published treatises and essays