writing moral psychology in eighteenth-century Britain /
Blakey Vermeule.
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000.
xii, 250 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.
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.
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Party of humanity.
Party of humanity.
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
Ethics-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics, Modern-- 18th century.
Moral development in literature.
Psychology-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.