Jacob Donald Chatterjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Donald Chatterjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatterjee |
| SIGNATURE | CHATTERJEE J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0336-6385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Construction of a Bestseller
Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson. It both reflected and shaped emerging tendencies in eighteenth‐century English thought by propounding a distinctive new moral synthesis mid‐way between Lockean hedonism and Shaftesbury's ethic of…
The Nature, Context, and Reception of Daniel Whitby’s Epicurean Ethics Textbook
The Ethices Compendium (1684) by Daniel Whitby, the Oxford-educated clergyman and scholar, was one of the most widely used ethics textbooks in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century North Atlantic world. Despite its popularity, modern scholars have not analysed the conceptual content of this work in any detail. This article contends that Whitby’s Ethices was one of the earliest ethics textbooks to promote Epicurean ideas about the reducibility of…
The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England
Bernard Mandeville’s critique of Epicurus and the “easie Divines” of the Church of England, 1705–1732
The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard Mandeville, a Dutch émigré physician and an acerbic satirist, was one of the most controversial works of the eighteenth century. Numerous contemporaries condemned Mandeville for ostensibly arguing that vice is the driving force of modern commercial societies, virtue is an arbitrary invention, and happiness consists in worldly pleasures. This article challenges the historiographical consensus that Mandeville…
Some Overlooked Extracts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings Published in Britain, 1792–1795
This research note provides an analysis of several overlooked extracts from Wollstonecraft's writings, which were published in Britain between 1792-1795. It uses these publications to argue that although politics played a significant role in Wollstonecraft's reception, her writings were often extracted because of their stylistic beauty, their diverting vividity, and their usefulness as educational works
An unrecorded 1785 discourse by Catharine Macaulay
This article examines a previously overlooked discourse entitled ‘A Quaker’s Sermon’, which was published in the September 1785 issue of the European Magazine, purportedly by Catharine Macaulay, the celebrated historian, philosopher, and republican writer. It provides some reasons in support of the European Magazine’s attribution of the discourse to Macaulay and explicates the work’s connections to her wider social thought. It also suggests that …
One hundred and eighty-two overlooked British comments on Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees , 1724–1800
The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard Mandeville, a Dutch émigré physician and acerbic satirist, provoked some of the fiercest debates of the eighteenth century by arguing that luxury and vice were the driving forces of modern commercial societies. However, studies of these polemical storms remain largely reliant on Frederick Benjamin Kaye’s incomplete appendix of contemporary references to Mandeville in the Clarendon Edition of the Fable (1924…
Celestial Epicurisme”
This article presents a new understanding of how Anglican clergymen and writers remoulded common notions of the moral status of pleasure during the latter half of the seventeenth century. It addresses the current historiographical neglect of the philosophical content of ethical thought within the Church of England. For Anglican thinkers developed innovative moral arguments about the rational order of human satisfactions in order to direct the dis…
One hundred and eighty-two overlooked British comments on Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees , 1724–1800
The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard Mandeville, a Dutch émigré physician and acerbic satirist, provoked some of the fiercest debates of the eighteenth century by arguing that luxury and vice were the driving forces of modern commercial societies. However, studies of these polemical storms remain largely reliant on Frederick Benjamin Kaye’s incomplete appendix of contemporary references to Mandeville in the Clarendon Edition of the Fable (1924…
One hundred and eighty-two overlooked British comments on Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees , 1724–1800
The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard Mandeville, a Dutch émigré physician and acerbic satirist, provoked some of the fiercest debates of the eighteenth century by arguing that luxury and vice were the driving forces of modern commercial societies. However, studies of these polemical storms remain largely reliant on Frederick Benjamin Kaye’s incomplete appendix of contemporary references to Mandeville in the Clarendon Edition of the Fable (1924…
Celestial Epicurisme”
This article presents a new understanding of how Anglican clergymen and writers remoulded common notions of the moral status of pleasure during the latter half of the seventeenth century. It addresses the current historiographical neglect of the philosophical content of ethical thought within the Church of England. For Anglican thinkers developed innovative moral arguments about the rational order of human satisfactions in order to direct the dis…
The Nature, Context, and Reception of Daniel Whitby’s Epicurean Ethics Textbook
The Ethices Compendium (1684) by Daniel Whitby, the Oxford-educated clergyman and scholar, was one of the most widely used ethics textbooks in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century North Atlantic world. Despite its popularity, modern scholars have not analysed the conceptual content of this work in any detail. This article contends that Whitby’s Ethices was one of the earliest ethics textbooks to promote Epicurean ideas about the reducibility of…
The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England
Bernard Mandeville’s critique of Epicurus and the “easie Divines” of the Church of England, 1705–1732
The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard Mandeville, a Dutch émigré physician and an acerbic satirist, was one of the most controversial works of the eighteenth century. Numerous contemporaries condemned Mandeville for ostensibly arguing that vice is the driving force of modern commercial societies, virtue is an arbitrary invention, and happiness consists in worldly pleasures. This article challenges the historiographical consensus that Mandeville…
Some Overlooked Extracts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings Published in Britain, 1792–1795
This research note provides an analysis of several overlooked extracts from Wollstonecraft's writings, which were published in Britain between 1792-1795. It uses these publications to argue that although politics played a significant role in Wollstonecraft's reception, her writings were often extracted because of their stylistic beauty, their diverting vividity, and their usefulness as educational works
An unrecorded 1785 discourse by Catharine Macaulay
This article examines a previously overlooked discourse entitled ‘A Quaker’s Sermon’, which was published in the September 1785 issue of the European Magazine, purportedly by Catharine Macaulay, the celebrated historian, philosopher, and republican writer. It provides some reasons in support of the European Magazine’s attribution of the discourse to Macaulay and explicates the work’s connections to her wider social thought. It also suggests that …
The Construction of a Bestseller
Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson. It both reflected and shaped emerging tendencies in eighteenth‐century English thought by propounding a distinctive new moral synthesis mid‐way between Lockean hedonism and Shaftesbury's ethic of…
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