Sensus communis: Ensayo sobre la libertad de ingenio y humor

by Anthony Ashley Cooper, Agustín Andreu (Editor & Translator)

Shaftesbury se enfrenta a la antropología política de su tutor Locke, propugnando por una antropología natural y común frente a una disimulada antropología criotocalvinista (de elegidos). Silenciados, él y sus amigos, por el poder “moderado” del puritanismo, su lectura aclarará no solo la línea de historia moderna que logró predominar, sino la idea de hombre y de sociedad necesaria para la Era postimperialista en qué tal vez se adentra la Humanidad.

Conselleria de Cultura, Educación y Ciencia de la Generalitat Valenciana

221 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1995

About the author

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury was an English politician, philosopher and writer.

He was born at Exeter House in London, the son of the future Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife Lady Dorothy Manners, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland. At the age of three he was made over to the formal guardianship of his grandfather Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. John Locke, as medical attendant to the Ashley household, was entrusted with the supervision of his education.