Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of
- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of
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born Feb. 26, 1671, London, Eng.
died Feb. 15, 1713, Naples
English politician and philosopher.
Grandson of the 1st earl of
Shaftesbury, he received his early education from
John Locke. He entered Parliament in 1695; succeeding to his title in 1699, he served three years in the House of Lords. His numerous philosophical essays were influenced by
Neoplatonism; published as
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), they became the chief source of English
Deism and influenced writers such as
Alexander Pope,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Immanuel Kant.
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Universalium.
2010.
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