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Soliloquy U.A.
Contributor(s): Anthony Ashley Cooper (Author), Benda, Wolfram (Editor), Jackson-Holzberg, Christine (Editor)
ISBN: 3772807577     ISBN-13: 9783772807572
Publisher: Frommann-Holzboog
OUR PRICE:   $462.18  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 1981
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy
Series: Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper): Standard Edition I. Wor
Physical Information: 444 pages
 
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In Selbstgesprach oder Ratschlag an einen Autor, dem letzten einzeln veroffentlichten Text der Characteristicks, erortert Shaftesbury die Notwendigkeit der Selbsterkenntnis und Selbstkritik. Das Selbstgesprach ist nicht nur die Methode solcher Selbstaufklarung, sondern wird zur Grundeinstellung eines aufgeklarten Menschen. Besonders der Schriftsteller sollte diese Haltung verkorpern und durch ihre undogmatische Darstellung im Brief, Essay und Dialog den Leser zu einem freien, kritischen Verhaltnis zu sich und zur Welt anregen. Die beiden Pamphlete in Briefform, der Brief uber den Enthusiasmus und die zum erstenmal vollstandig veroffentlichten Adept Ladys, beziehen sich auf zeitgenossische Sektierer; im Falle des Letter auf die protestantischen Camisards, die aus den Cevennen geflohen waren und in London Unruhen verursachten. In Soliloquy, the last of the essays to be published separately before their joint appearance as Characteristicks, Shaftesbury discusses the importance of critical self-knowledge. The form of soliloquy or self-communion advocated is more than simply the means by which such self-illumination can be achieved: it must be one of the first principles of the enlightened mind. Writers especially are to adopt the self-discoursive approach and, by demonstrating it without dogmatism in letters, essays, and dialogues, encourage in their readers a free and critical attitude towards themselves and the world. - The two epistolary pieces, A Letter concerning Enthusiasm and The Adept Ladies (the text of the latter is edited here for the first time in full), were both written with the behaviour of contemporary religious sects in mind; the Letter is, more specifically, a response to the disturbing fervour generated in London by the French Prophets or Camisards, a group of Protestants who had fled to England from the Cevennes.