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Shaftesbury, Earl of,
Anthony Ashley Cooper (b. London, February 26th, 1671, d. Naples, February 15th, 1713). Inquiry Concerning Virtue (1691); An Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit (1699); A Letter concerning Enthusiasm (1708), Sensus Communis (1709); Moralists: a Philosophical Rhapsody (1709); Soliloquy; or, Advice to an Author (1710); Miscellaneous Reflections (1714); forming the seven treatises of his Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times (1711); The Judgment of Hercules (1713). He also wrote Several Letters by a Noble Lord to a Young Man at the University (1716); and Letters to Robert Molesworth, Esq., with Two Letters to Sir John Cropley (1721). See Gizyckis Philosophie Shaftesburys (Leip., 1876).