Hutcheson: Two Texts on Human Nature
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- Real Author: Francis Hutcheson
- Editor: Thomas Mautner, Australian National University, Canberra
- Date Published: March 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521057103
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Francis Hutcheson 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 view, common then as now, that morality is nothing more than the prudent pursuit of self-interest, arguing in favor of a theory of a moral sense. The two previously inaccessible texts presented here are the most eloquent expressions of this theory. Thomas Mautner's introduction provides a mass of new information on the intellectual context of Hutcheson's work.
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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"...we are fortunate to have these texts available. The volume will be of interest to both eighteenth-century specialists and those concerned with the history of moral philosophy." Canadian Philosophical Reviews
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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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