Razão e zombaria em Shaftesbury

Resumo

Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour é o segundo
de um conjunto de seis tratados que Anthony Ashley Cooper publicou em 1711 com
o nome de Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. O presente artigo
busca analisar a estreita relação que os conceitos de razão e zombaria assumem
nesta obra e a sua importância para a elaboração da noção shaftesburiana de
senso comum.

Reason and raillery in Shaftesbury

Abstract

Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour is the
second of a collection of six treatises which Anthony Ashley Cooper (the third Earl
of Shaftesbury, 1671-1713) published in 1711 under the title of Characteristics of
Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. This paper aims to analyze the close relation that
the concepts of reason and raillery assume in the referred work and its importance
to the elaboration of Shaftesburian notion of common sense.