Recognition, sociability and intolerance
A study of Archibald Campbell (1691–1756)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13104809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Stuart-Buttle (0000-0003-4104-9807, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-246 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Intellectual History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2380-1883 • E-ISSN: 2380-1891 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23801883.2019.1699889 |
| OpenAlex | W2993028117 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
The period ca.1650–1800 witnessed a concerted, if neglected debate about the implications of mankind's desire for recognition, which bore directly on discussions of sociability and toleration. Here Thomas Hobbes's writings acted as a powerful stimulus. Hobbes argued that even as the desire for recognition in mankind's natural condition induces individuals to seek society, recognition-seeking generates a mistrust and violence that precludes its realisation. Political authority, allied to the ecclesiastical, is required to constrain men to recognise their mutual obligations to one another: vertical toleration is necessary for horizontal tolerance between individuals to be realisable. The Church of Scotland minister and Professor at St Andrews, Archibald Campbell (1691–1756) offered a comprehensive challenge to Hobbes's interpretation of the relationship between recognition and toleration. Campbell vindicated the desire for esteem from both a moral and a theological perspective: the pursuit of recognition induces us to accommodate our opinions and actions to those of others with whom we live. It gives rise to sociability and mutual fellowship. Yet Campbell accepted that the economy of esteem had been corrupted in ‘civilized’ societies, and implicated institutional religion in this development. Toleration, he concluded, could not hope to salve the wounds caused by the introduction of intolerance into human relations
Psychoanalysis · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Gerontology
Flattery and the History of Political Thought
Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Leviathan
Nicomachean Ethics
The Southern Journal of Philosophy
Self‐love in Aristotle
Mere Civility
Politics in Commercial Society
Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis
Doctrinal issues concerning human nature and self-love, and the case of Archibald Campbell's Enquiry
Sociability, Luxury and Sympathy
Archibald Campbell's Necessity of Revelation (1739)—the Science of Human Nature's First Study of Religion
Archibald Campbell and the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Natural Reason, Natural Religion, and Revelation
Shame and Necessity
Sympathy and moral sense
Vainglory, Modesty, and Political Agency in the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes and the Equality of All Under the One
Hobbes on the Causes of War
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |