ABSTRACT:This paper examines the emergence of a philosophical concept of genius based on imagination, association, and the Lockean theory of ideas, primarily in eighteenth-century Britain. It considers the background, including the work of the Abbé Jean Baptiste Du Bos, the third earl of Shaftesbury, Francis Hutcheson, and David Hume, but it focuses specifically on the British writers William Duff, William Sharpe, and Alexander Gerard. It does not deal with the later Kantian and post-Kantian Romantic theories of genius.

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论天才：18 世纪英国天才哲学概念的发展

摘要：本文考察了基于想象力、联想和洛克思想理论的天才哲学概念的出现，主要是在 18 世纪的英国。它考虑了背景，包括沙夫茨伯里第三伯爵让·巴蒂斯特·杜博斯 (Abbé Jean Baptiste Du Bos)、弗朗西斯·哈奇森 (Francis Hutcheson) 和大卫·休谟 (David Hume) 的作品，但特别关注英国作家威廉·达夫、威廉·夏普和亚历山大·杰拉德。它不涉及后来的康德和后康德浪漫主义天才理论。