Select Sermons of Dr. Whichcote U.A.: Several Letters Written by a Noble Lord to a Young Man at the University

by Anthony Ashley Cooper III

Shaftesbury's central concerns in the two works presented here are issues of moral philosophy, theology, as well as ongoing developments in the England of his day. The first is a collection of twelve sermons by one of the leading Cambridge Platonists, Benjamin Whichcote (1609-1683); the texts, edited and revised by Shaftesbury, were published in 1698. The preface to the edition was the first work by the Earl to appear in print, and in it he discusses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3772819796
• ISBN13: 9783772819797
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Frommann-Holzboog
• Length: 486 Pages