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The party of humanity : writing moral psychology in eighteenth-century Britain
- Title
- The party of humanity : writing moral psychology in eighteenth-century Britain / Blakey Vermeule.
- Author
- Vermeule, Blakey.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Party of Humanity frames its discussion about emotions, social conflict, and aesthetics within two broad theories: the emerging field of evolutionary psychology and Kantian moral philosophy. By studying how eighteenth-century Britons experienced the demands of their social identities, Vermeule argues, we can better understand the most salient problems facing moral philosophy today - the issue of self-interest and the question of how moral norms are shaped by social agendas."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Pope, Alexander
- Hume, David
- Johnson, Samuel
- 1700-1799
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Psychology > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Ethics > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Psychology > Moral and ethical aspects
- Self (Philosophy) in literature
- Moral development in literature
- Ethics, Modern > 18th century
- Psychology in literature
- Psychology > Philosophy
- Ethics in literature
- Ethics, Modern
- Ethics > history
- Morals > history
- Ego > in literature
- Literature, Modern > english
- Literature, Modern > history
- English literature
- Ethics
- Ethics in literature
- Ethics, Modern
- Moral development in literature
- Psychology
- Psychology in literature
- Psychology > Moral and ethical aspects
- Psychology > Philosophy
- Self (Philosophy) in literature
- Literatur
- Ethik
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Psychology > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Ethics > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Ethics, Modern > 18th century
- Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Psychologie > Aspect moral
- Littérature > Aspect psychologique
- Geschichte 1700-1800
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Some Paradoxes of Moral Psychology -- Alexander Pope: The Art of Obligation -- Formalism, Criticism, Obligation -- "To Virtue Only and Her Friends, A Friend": A Sequence of Early Portraits -- Abstraction, Reference, and the Dualism of Pope's Dunciad -- The Spectator Morality of the Enlightenment -- The Kindness of Strangers: Johnson's Life of Savage and the Culture of Altruism -- Pride's Reasons: Hume's Spectator Morality -- Jovial Fanatics: Hume, Warton, Cowper.
- ISBN
- 0801864593
- 9780801864599
- LCCN
- 00008288
- OCLC
- ocm43427527
- 43427527
- SCSB-14510179
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library