A celebrated seventeenth century philosopher, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury published the three-volume ‘Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times’, which has had a profound impact on Western thought. Shaftesbury was a firm supporter of Deism, favouring acceptance of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person or acquired by reason, while rejecting religious knowledge gained from revelation or church teachings. Promoting religious tolerance, the Deists were particularly vehement against fanaticism and enthusiasm. Shaftesbury’s ‘Letter Concerning Enthusiasm’ (1708) was the most prominent text propagating their ideas. This eBook presents of Shaftesbury’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to of Shaftesbury’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the texts

* All the published works, with individual contents tables

* The complete ‘Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times’, based on the 1732 text

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Rare posthumous texts in no other collection

* Features two biographies

* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

CONTENTS:

The Works

Preface to ‘Select Sermons of Dr. Whichcote’ (1698)

The Adept Ladys (1702)

Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

Second Characters (1914)

The Biographies

Anthony Ashley Cooper (1900) by Leslie Stephen

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1911) by Thomas Fowler and John Malcolm Mitchell