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William Robert Scott
"W. R. Scott's book was a pioneering effort, not only in the study of Hutcheson but of the Scottish Enlightenment, a term that he is thought to have launched. In…
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This definitive biography of 18th-century Scottish philosopher Francis Hutcheson offers a comprehensive overview of his life and ideas. Hutcheson, who greatly influenced the Scottish Enlightenment, was a pioneer in the…
Francis Hutcheson
Hutcheson’s epistolary offerings include letters published in journals in England, Ireland, and Netherlands. These letters and writings exhibit his polemical skills in controversy, his differences with Presbyterian orthodoxy, his preoccupation…
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Known today mainly as a teacher of Adam Smith (1723-90) and an influence on David Hume (1711-76), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was a first-rate thinker whose work deserves study on its…
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Lecteur de Grotius, Pufendorf et Shaftesbury, trouvant en Hume et Adam Smith une remarquable posterite, Francis Hutcheson, professeur de philosophie morale a l'Universite de Glasgow de 1730 a sa mort…
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Provides an insight into Hutcheson’s thought. This book represents his systematic treatments of logic, ontology, and pneumatology, or the science of the soul. They were considered indispensable texts for the…
The works contained in Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind were available only to a elite group of scholars and readers who could read Latin. This English translation…
Hutcheson’s Institutio was written as a textbook for university students and it therefore covers a curriculum which has an institutional background in his own university, Glasgow. This title is a…
Offers a vision of a universe governed by a natural law that obliges us to love mankind and to govern our lives in accordance with the natural order of things.
Le livre ""Syst?????me de philosophie morale V1 (1770)"" de Francis Hutcheson est une ?????uvre majeure de la philosophie morale du XVIIIe si?????cle. Dans ce premier volume, Hutcheson explore les questions…
Published posthumously in 1755, this two-volume set offers the most comprehensive account of the moral and political philosophy of Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), often described as the father of the Scottish…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
A SYSTEM OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, IN THREE BOOKSVolume 2By Francis Hutcheson
Contents of the Second Volume
Book II
Concerning Contrasts or Covenants.
The Obligations in the Use of…
A SYSTEM OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, IN THREE BOOKSVolume 1By Francis Hutcheson
Excerpt from Preface
Dr. Francis Hutcheson was born on the 8th of August, A.D. 1694. His father…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1742 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1729 Edition.
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
This work contains two treatises: concerning beauty, order, harmony, design, and concerning moral good and evil. There is no part of philosophy of more importance than a just knowledge of…
Although the main practical principles, which are repeated in this treatise, have this prejudice in their favor, that they have been taught and propagated by the best of men in…
