Author:Anthony Ashley Cooper (1671-1713)

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Anthony Ashley Cooper
(1671–1713)

3rd Earl of Shaftesbury; Lord Ashley was tutored by John Locke and then educated at Winchester College on the death of the the first Earl; 1686, toured the Continent, returning to England in 1689. Entered parliament in 1695 but resigned his seat in 1698. Succeeded to the title and then took his seat in the House of Lords in 1701, but his political career ended with the death of William III. His most influential work was his Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

Works[edit]

Collected works[edit]

  • Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1st edition 1711; 2nd, corrected and enlarged, edition 1714), in 3 vols.
    • John Baskerville edition (1773):
      • Volume I. (transcription project)
        • A Letter concerning Enthusiasm
        • Sensus Communis; an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour
        • Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author
      • Volume II. (transcription project)
        • An Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit
        • The Moralists; a Philosophical Rhapsody
      • Volume III. (transcription project)
        • Miscellaneous Reflections on the said Treatises, and other critical Subjects
        • A Notion of the Historical Draught, or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules
        • A Letter concerning the Art, or Science of Design

Works about Cooper[edit]

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