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BL
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635045
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Vermeule, Blakey.
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The party of humanity : : writing moral psychology in eighteenth-century Britain /\ Blakey Vermeule.
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2000.
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xii, 250 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0801864593 (alk. paper)
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: 9780801864599 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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Psychology-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Ethics-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Psychology-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Self (Philosophy) in literature.
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Moral development in literature.
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Ethics, Modern-- 18th century.
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Psychology in literature.
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Psychology-- Philosophy.
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Ethics in literature.
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PR448.P75V47 2000
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