Shaftesbury on life as a work of art |
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Authors: | Michael B Gill |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USAgillm@email.arizona.edu |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis 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. |
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Keywords: | Shaftesbury virtue art self-improvement |
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