John Adams Library
Biographic Data
| ID | 9320600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Adams Library |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Adams |
| FAMILY NAME | Library |
| SIGNATURE | LIBRARY J A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
"The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to distinguish virtue from vice and thus to act from moral love …
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An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
"The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to distinguish virtue from vice and thus to act from moral love …
18th century (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Aesthetics, early works to 1800 (1 works) · Beauty (1 works) · Diverse Topics in Contemporary Research (1 works) · Early works to 1800 (1 works) · Early works to 1800 (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Ethics (1 works)