SHAFTESBURY AS A PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHER

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  • College of Management Academic Studies

Abstract

Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury (1671-1713), the British Enlightenment philosopher, put on the agenda the practice of philosophy. The most important Modern Socratic made philosophy important for this happiness-driven century in a way that his contemporaries could not. Not only did he use philosophy to educate a new class of citizens, but he made philosophy necessary for virtue and virtue indispensable for happiness. In contradistinction to his tutor, John Locke, and his followers who made pleasure the content of happiness, Shaftesbury’s combined neo-Stoicism and neo-Aristotelianism accounted for his equating virtue with happiness, thus making of philosophy as "the study of happiness" a necessity for all.

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2021-01-27

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Amir, L. (2021). SHAFTESBURY AS A PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHER. International Journal on Philosophical Practice HASER, (6), 81–101. Retrieved from https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/HASER/article/view/15089

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