Author: Henry called Lord Kames HomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion. 2. Ed
Author: Henry called Lord Kames HomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
Author: Lord Henry Home KamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
Author: Lord Henry Home KamesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780865974494
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Henry Home (1696-1782) has been called "perhaps the most complete 'Enlightenment man' among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers." Kinsman and friend of David Hume, mentor and patron of Adam Smith, John Millar, and Thomas Reid, he was a key figure in that circle of luminaries. He read law, was called to the bar in 1723, was raised to the Bench of the Court of Session in 1752, with the title Lord Kames (the name of his family estate), and joined the High Court of the Justiciary in 1763. Publishing broadly in law, history, philosophy, and criticism, Kames made significant contributions to the Enlightenment's science of human nature." "The Essays is commonly considered Kames's most important philosophical work. In the first part, he sets forth the principles and foundations of morality and justice, attacking Hume's moral skepticism and addressing the controversial issue of the freedom of human will. In the second part, Kames focuses on questions of metaphysics and epistemology to offer a natural theology in which the authority of the external senses is an important basis for belief in the Deity." "The text of this volume is based on the third edition of 1779, while the appendix presents substantial variant readings in the first and second editions."--BOOK JACKET.
Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
Author: Lord Henry Home KamesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780415081047
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Essays in the Philosophy of Religion
Author: Philip L. QuinnPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 019156950X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This volume presents a selection of essays by the late Philip Quinn, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion. Quinn left behind an influential body of work on a wide variety of topics. He was the author of Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (1978) and of more than two hundred papers in philosophy. Fourteen of his best and most influential contributions to the philosophy of religion are gathered here. The papers have been organized around the following topics: religious epistemology, religious ethics, religion and tragic dilemmas, religion and political liberalism, topics in Christian philosophy, and religious diversity.
Reading 1759
Author: Shaun ReganPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611484782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this crucial year. Offering broad coverage of the year's work in writing, these essays examine key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, along with such group projects as the Encyclop die and the literary review journals of the mid-eighteenth century. Organized around a cluster of key topics, the volume reflects the concerns most important to writers themselves in 1759. This was a year of the new and the modern, as writers addressed current issues of empire and ethical conduct, forged new forms of creative expression, and grappled with the nature of originality itself. Texts written and published in 1759 confronted the history of Western colonialism, the problem of prostitution in a civilized society, and the limitations of linguistic expression. Philosophical issues were also important in 1759, not least the thorny question of causation; while, in France, state censorship challenged the Encyclop die, the central Enlightenment project. Taking into its purview such texts and intellectual developments, Reading 1759 puts the literary culture of this singular, and singularly important, year on the scholarly map. In the process, the volume also provides a self-reflective contribution to the growing body of "annualized" studies that focus on the literary output of specific years.
The Rise of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Tatsuya SakamotoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134435517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Presenting original research by prominent scholars, this book provides the first comprehensive survey of the rise and progress of political economy as an integral part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-century Britain
Author: David SpadaforaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300046717
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.