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...day." This famous statement of intent then continues in a vein Montaigne would have found congenial: "I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that...assemblies, at tea-tables, and in coffee-houses." The governing conceit in Addison's public-spirited philosophy of manners is an awareness, derived from...

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...a plan to urbanise philosophy and reform a corrupt public culture. Mr Spectator famously declared: 'I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-houses.'8 The coffee-house plays a significant role in The Spectator's project, not only as...

...publication: It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I...to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at TeaTables, and Coffee- Houses.8 The Addison passage makes explicit a point that is implicit in the passage cited from...

...Signification, is but To carry Good-Breeding a step higher'. 77 Proposing, through The Spectator, to bring 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee Houses', Joseph Addison, the first great media man, thus sought to turn the philosopher into...

...persona of the thinker, signalled by Adam Smith's remark about the trade of thinking. Proposing to bring 'Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee Houses', Joseph Addison, the first great media man, sought to turn the philosopher into a man...

...what Joseph Addison in the Spectator styled as bringing philosophy and political economy "out of the Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell...and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-Houses." Market relations influenced not only the flow of goods and capital but the equally crucial flow of...

...defined the Spectator's aims as relocating philosophy and, so, remapping the cultural world, bringing "Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools...Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at TeaTables, andCoffee-Houses.'*2 As in Shaftesbury, philosophy here was being transferred from what were represented...

...with wit, and to temper wit with morality." He said his aim was to bring philosophy "out of the closet and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in...and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses." Addison was also a poet whose work sometimes reflected somewhat deist views. For example, Addison penned...