When1: 1711
Who: Lord Shaftesbury [Shaftesbury, Lord] or Anthony Cooper [Cooper, Anthony]
What: philosopher
Where: England
works\ Characteristics of Man, Manners, Opinions, and Times [1711]
Detail: He lived 1671 to 1713 and was deist. As third Earl of Shaftesbury, he introduced laws to prevent women and children from working in coal mines, to limit workdays to ten hours, and to create insane asylums.
Ethics
Feelings depend on reflection about self. They approve the good and beautiful and abhor the bad and ugly and so guide person's actions, making moral sense {moral sense} {sentimentalism}.
Goal of ethical life is individual-ability development, by unfolding essences. Individuals should use all forces and impulses in harmonious ways. Individuals should not conform to others' laws or humble self or will before other people. In cultivated and mature people, development combines selfish interests with altruistic motives.
Metaphysics
God is what orders physical world {deus ex machina, Shaftesbury}.
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