Shaftesbury on life as a work of art

Michael B. Gill

doi:10.1080/09608788.2018.1457512

Shaftesbury on life as a work of art

Michael B. Gill

Philosophy

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This paper explicates Shaftesbury’s idea that we ought to live our lives as though they are works of art. I show that this idea is central to many of Shaftesbury’s most important claims, and that an understanding of this idea enables us to answer some of the most contested questions in the scholarship on Characteristics.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1110-1131
Number of pages	22
Journal	British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Volume	26
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2018.1457512
State	Published - Nov 2 2018

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Shaftesbury
art
self-improvement
virtue

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Philosophy

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