Hutcheson: Two Texts on Human Nature
- Real Author: Francis Hutcheson
- Editor: Thomas Mautner, Australian National University, Canberra
- Date Published: March 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521057103
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Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was the first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, and one of the great thinkers in the history of British moral philosophy. He firmly rejected the reductionist view, common then as now, that morality is nothing more than the prudent pursuit of self-interest, arguing in favour of a theory of a moral sense. The two texts presented here are the most eloquent expressions of this theory. The Reflections on our Common Systems of Morality insists on the connection between moral philosophy and moral improvement, and was a preview of his first major work, the Inquiry of 1725. The lecture On the Social Nature of Man, arguing against the psychological egoism of Hobbes, appears here in an English translation for the first time. Thomas Mautner's introduction and editorial apparatus provide a mass of new information, helping to give the reader a sense of the intellectual climate in which Hutcheson lived.
Read more- Two texts by an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Hutcheson influenced Hume, Kant and Adam Smith (his pupil)
- Neither text has previously been available, and one is translated here from Latin for the first time
- Editorial material presents a mass of new information on Hutcheson's life and times and reactions to his work
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- Date Published: March 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521057103
- length: 212 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 156 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Reflections on the Common Systems of Morality
Inaugural Lecture on the Social Nature of Man
Appendices
Bibliography.
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