Many of the ideas he espoused in works like Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit formed the basis for the later work of Frances Hutcheson.
His Sensus Communis argued for the freedom provided by wit and humor and noted that virtue is often determined by affection. In a treatise subtitled "A Philosophical Rhapsody," he argued for a morally perfect God. That work also discussed a three part hierarchy of beauty and was called The Moralists. Many of the ideas he espoused in works like Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit formed the basis for the later work of Frances Hutcheson. He argued against egoism and was the first to call man's innate ethical instincts, "the moral sense," but was singled ohut for his seemingly deistic religious beliefs in George Berkeley's Alciphron. Best known for his 1711 collection, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times, for 10 points, identify this student of John Locke, who was born Anthony Ashley Cooper.
His Sensus Communis argued for the freedom provided by wit and humor and noted that virtue is often determined by affection.
The Third Earl of Shaftesbury or Lord Shaftesbury [accept Anthony Ashley Cooper before it is mentioned]