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Shaftesbury, Third Earl of

Born - Died : 1671 - 1713

The Third Earl of Shaftesbury had John Locke as a tutor and became a philosopher. His essays were published as Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions Times, in 1711. He was a Neoplatonist and believed that man possess a moral sense.