Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times Anthony, Third Earl of Shaftesbury haracteristicks Men, Manners, Opinions, Times nthony, T E S Foreword by Douglas Den Uyl Indianapolis This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as the design motif for our endpapers is the earliest-known written appearance of the word ‘‘freedom’’ (amagi), or ‘‘liberty.’’ It is taken from a clay document written about .. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash. © Liberty Fund, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, –. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times / Anthony, Third Earl of Shaftesbury; introduction by Douglas Den Uyl. p. cm. Originally published: th ed., cor., with the addition of a letter concerning design. London: Printed by J. Purser, –. With new introd. Includes bibliographical references. ---x (hc: set) --- (pbk.: set) . Ethics. I. Title. . —dc - , . Allison Pointe Trail, Suite Indianapolis, Indiana - Foreword vii A Note on the Text xiii A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm. Sensus Communis; an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour. Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit. The Moralists; a Philosophical Rhapsody. Miscellaneous Reflections on the Said Treatises, and Other Critical Subjects. ANotionoftheHistoricalDraught,or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules. With a Letter Concerning Design. Shaftesbury’s Index Index to This Edition v [...]... Disposition that we are capacitated to judg of things.We must beforehand judg of our own Temper, and accordingly of other things which fall under our Judgment But we must * Infra, pag , never more pretend to judg of things, or of our own Temper in judging them, when we have given up our preliminary Right of Judgment, and under a presumption of Gravity, have allow’d ourselves to... which is complain’d of? If Men are vicious, petulant or abusive; the Magistrate may correct them: But if they reason ill, ’tis Reason still must teach ’em to do better Justness of Thought and Style, Refinement in Manners, good Breeding, and Politeness of every kind, can come only from the Trial and Experience of what is best Let but the Search go freely on, and the right Measure of every thing will... first, will certainly fall at last where it deserves I have often wonder’d to see Men of Sense so mightily alarm’d at the approach of any thing like Ridicule on certain SubAjects; as if they mistrusted their own Judgment For what Ridicule can Sect [] [] Sect [] lie against Reason? Or how can any one of the least Justness of Thought endure a Ridicule wrong plac’d? Nothing is more... before his death The edition is therefore the edition most often considered as the reference point for other editions It includes Shaftesbury’s emblematic images and ‘‘A Notion of the Historical Draught or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules.’’ Despite its inclusion in the edition, it seems not to be the case that the ‘‘Judgment of Hercules’’ was meant for the Characteristicks The emblematic... my Lord, there are many Panicks in Mankind, besides merely that of Fear And thus is Religion also Panick; when Enthusiasm of any kind gets up; as oft, on melancholy occasions, it will For Vapours naturally rise; and in bad times especially, when the Spirits of Men are low, as either in publick Calamitys, or during the Unwholesomeness of Air or Diet, or when Convulsions happen in Nature, Storms, Earthquakes,... himself; and must have been esteem’d equally profane and atheistical by the generality of sober Men Now what a mighty advantage must it have been to an antient Poet to be thus orthodox, and by the help of his Education, and a Good-will into the bargain, to work himself up to the Belief of a Divine Presence and Heavenly Inspiration? It was never surely the business of Poets in those days to call Revelation... Extravagance of every kind were more sharply inspected, or more wittily ridicul’d And one might hope at least from this good Symptom, that our Age was in no declining state; since whatever our Distempers are, we stand so well affected to our Remedys To bear the being told of Faults, is in private Persons the best token of Amendment ’Tis seldom that a Publick is thus dispos’d For where Jealousy of State,... aftertimes Men call’d a Panick The Story indeed gives a good Hint of the nature of this Passion, which can hardly be without some mixture of Enthusiasm, and Horrors of a superstitious kind One may with good reason call every Passion Panick which is rais’d in a † Multitude, and convey’d by Aspect, or as it were by Contact or Sympathy Thus popular Fury may be call’d Panick, when the Rage of the People,... truth outside of oneself On the contrary, as one rounds each corner of the labyrinth that is the Characteristicks, one takes another step on the path of self-exploration As the author of this challenging work declares, ‘‘ ’Tis not enough to show us merely faces which may be called men s; every face must be a certain man’s.’’ Douglas J Den Uyl This edition of Shaftesbury’s... occasion Bloodshed, Wars, Persecutions and Devastations in the World But a new sort of Policy, which extends it-self to another World, and considers the future Lives and Happiness of Men rather than the present, has made us leap the Bounds of natural Humanity; and out of a supernatural Charity, has taught us the way of plaguing one another most devoutly It has rais’d an † Antipathy which no temporal . Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times Anthony, Third Earl of Shaftesbury haracteristicks Men, Manners, Opinions, Times nthony, T. Ashley Cooper, Earl of, –. Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times / Anthony, Third Earl of Shaftesbury; introduction by Douglas Den Uyl. p.