A Philosophy of Beauty (eBook)

Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art

Michael B. Gill (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22669-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English. It revolutionized Western philosophy. In A Philosophy of Beauty, Michael Gill presents an engaging account of how Shaftesbury's thought profoundly shaped modern ideas of nature, religion, morality, and art-and why, despite its long neglect, it remains compelling today.Before Shaftesbury's magnum opus, Charactersticks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), it was common to see wilderness as ugly, to associate religion with fear and morality with unpleasant restriction, and to dismiss art as trivial or even corrupting. But Shaftesbury argued that nature, religion, virtue, and art can all be truly beautiful, and that cherishing and cultivating beauty is what makes life worth living. And, as Gill shows, this view had a huge impact on the development of natural religion, moral sense theory, aesthetics, and environmentalism.Combining captivating historical details and flashes of humor, A Philosophy of Beauty not only rediscovers and illuminates a fascinating philosopher but also offers an inspiring reflection about the role beauty can play in our lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 19 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Admiration • Aesthetics • Aesthetics of Nature • aesthetic theory • affection • Art for art's sake • Atheism • author • belief in God • Certainty • Concept • conformity • Consideration • Contingency (Philosophy) • courtesy • Criticism • declaration of love • deity • Deontological Ethics • divine providence • efficacy • Elegance • Eloquence • Emotion • Empathy • enthusiasm • environmental philosophy • Epistemology • Essay • estimation • ethics • Etiquette • Excellence • Explanation • Extrapolation • Eyesore • Feeling • Fine Art • Formal garden • God • Good and evil • Gratitude • greatness • History Painting • Holism • Human • humility • Incentive • Individual • indulgence • innuendo • Instrumental Value • Intention • Irony • kowtow • Lightness • Loyalty • moral agency • Moral Character • Morality • Morality and religion • Noun adjunct • Obedience (human behavior) • Of Miracles • On Liberty • On Virtue • originality • painting • Parody • Persuasion • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • piety • Politeness • Rationality • reason • Religion • Reputation • result • Righteousness • self-esteem • Selfishness • Simplicity • Sincerity • soliloquy • State of nature • Stoicism • Sublime (philosophy) • Supreme being • Sympathy • Theism • Thought • tranquillity • treatise • uniqueness • Virtue Ethics • Wealth • Worship • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22669-5 / 0691226695
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22669-9 / 9780691226699