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"If the love of doing good be not of itself a good and right inclination, I know not how there can possibly be such a thing as goodness or virtue" (Characteristicks)

Pictures and Illustrations

Victoria and Albert Museum
Thought to be the future second Earl.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/11831-popup.html

National Portrait Gallery
John Closterman, c. 1700/1: The third Earl and his brother Maurice Ashley. For further details click here.

St Giles’s House

See Media Gallery.
John Closterman, c. 1701/2: The third Earl and an unidentified figure. For further details click here.
John Closterman, c. 1701/2: Maurice Ashley in hunting dress. For further details click here.

St Giles’s House and Estates

See Media Gallery

Shaftesbury Estates
http://www.shaftesburyestates.com/

Editions

Early Modern Texts
Online-editions of four of the Earl’s texts
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/f_shaftesbury.html

Liberty Fund
Edition of Characteristicks in 3 vols
http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1851

Laurent Jaffro
Edition of Letter concerning Enthusiasm – Original link: http://www.jaffro.net/letter_concerning_enthusiasm.pdf (not active)
Main site: https://www.normalesup.org/~ljaffro/2881.html

Shaftesbury in Online Encyclopaedias

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/shaftes.htm

Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (German)
http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/s/s3/shaftesbury_a_a_c.shtml

Dictionary of Sensibility, University of Virginia
by Corey Brady, Virginia Cope, Michael Millner, Ana Mitric, Kent Puckett, Danny Siegel
http://graduate.engl.virginia.edu/enec981/dictionary/index.html

The Columbia Encyclopedia
Sixth Edition, 2001-5
http://www.bartleby.com/65/sh/Shaftes3.html

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/shaftesbury

Resources

General introduction
http://spectacledavenger.blogspot.com/2009/04/lord-shaftesbury-characteristicks-of.html

Bibliography of secondary works (University of Paris-Sorbonne)
Extensive bibliography of secondary works (monographs and articles).
© Laurent Jaffro, Directeur de la maison des scienes de l’homme de Clermont-Ferrand, 1998
http://jaffro.net/Shaftesbury.htm
http://jaffro.net/SelectedShaftesbury.htm

Liberty Fund
The illustrations for Characteristicks with commentary.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1567&Itemid=263
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1565&Itemid=263

Biography (Italian)
http://www.filosofico.net/shaftesbury.htm

Italian research on British Enlightenment
http://www.dfc.unibo.it/it/ricerca

Eighteenth-Century Resources
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/


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These hyperlinks are provided for reference only, and we at the Shaftesbury Project cannot accept responsibility for the contents of third-party sites or for any kind of damage incurred during their use.

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