Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of
born Feb. 26, 1671, London, Eng.
died Feb. 15, 1713, Naples

English politician and philosopher.

Grandson of the 1st earl of Shaftesbury, he received his early education from John Locke. He entered Parliament in 1695; succeeding to his title in 1699, he served three years in the House of Lords. His numerous philosophical essays were influenced by Neoplatonism; published as Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), they became the chief source of English Deism and influenced writers such as Alexander Pope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Immanuel Kant.

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