Author:Anthony Ashley Cooper (1671-1713)

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Anthony Ashley Cooper
(1671–1713)

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3rd Earl of Shaftesbury; Lord Ashley was tutored by John Locke and then educated at Winchester College on the death of the the first Earl; 1686, toured the Continent, returning to England in 1689. Entered parliament in 1695 but resigned his seat in 1698. Succeeded to the title and then took his seat in the House of Lords in 1701, but his political career ended with the death of William III. His most influential work was his Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times.

Works

A speech lately made by a noble peer of the realm (1681) (external scan)
An impartial account of the nature and tendency of the late addresses: in a letter to a gentleman in the country (1681) (external scan)
An Inquiry Concerning Virtue. (1699) (external scan). Shaftesbury renounced this first edition as unauthorised, and rewrote the work for his Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711).
A Letter concerning Enthusiasm (1708) (external scan)
Sensus Communis (1709)
The Moralists (1709)
Soliloquy Communis (1709)
A notion of the historical draught or tablature of the judgment of Hercules (1713) (external scan)

Collected works

Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1st edition 1711; 2nd, corrected and enlarged, edition 1714), in 3 vols.
- John Baskerville edition (1773):
  - Volume I. (transcription project)
    - A Letter concerning Enthusiasm
    - Sensus Communis; an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour
    - Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author
  - Volume II. (transcription project)
    - An Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit
    - The Moralists; a Philosophical Rhapsody
  - Volume III. (transcription project)
    - Miscellaneous Reflections on the said Treatises, and other critical Subjects
    - A Notion of the Historical Draught, or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules
    - A Letter concerning the Art, or Science of Design
The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury (1900). Edited by Benjamin Rand IA
Second Characters; or, The Language of Forms (1914). Edited by Benjamin Rand. A reconstruction of a planned, but never published, fourth volume of the Characteristicks. IA

Collected letters

Several letters written by a noble lord to a young man at the university. (1716)
Letters from the Right Honourable the late Earl of Shaftesbury, to Robert Molesworth, Esq; ... With two letters written by the late Sir John Cropley. (1721)
Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, author of the Characteristicks, collected into one volume. (1746)

Works about Cooper

"Cooper, Anthony Ashley (1671-1713)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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