Shaftesbury and Locke: A tale of three letters

Daniel Carey

doi:10.3726/978-3-653-06536-7

Shaftesbury and Locke: A tale of three letters

Daniel Carey

English

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My purpose in this essay is to revisit the relationship between Shaftesbury and Locke, using Shaftesbury's letters as a guide. I suggest that some of the rhetorical dexterity that constitutes so marked a feature of the third Earl's published work - his highly deflected style, routed through irony, multiple voices, and ostensible disclosures followed by wry denials - may have been shaped by his early encounters with Locke, who required explicit and defensible statements of position by his protégé and then evidently subjected them to careful and rigorous scrutiny.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Shaping enlightenment politics
Subtitle of host publication	The social and political impact of the first and third earls of Shaftesbury
Publisher	Peter Lang AG
Pages	99-114
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783653065367
ISBN (Print)	9783631671634
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-06536-7
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2018

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