Essays on the principles of morality and natural religion: several essays added concerning the proof of a deity
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Main Author: Kames, Henry Home 1696-1782 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, IN Liberty Fund 2005
Edition:3rd ed., corrected and improved
Series:Natural law and enlightenment classics
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
PART I: Our attachment to objects of distress -- Foundation and principles of morality -- Liberty and necessity -- Personal identity -- PART II: Belief -- External senses -- Different theories of vision -- Matter and spirit -- Power, cause and effect -- Knowledge of future events -- Dread of supernatural powers in the dark -- Knowledge of the Deity -- APPENDIX: Significant variant readings
"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."--Jacket
Physical Description:xix, 280 pages
ISBN:9781614878209
161487820X
0865974489
9780865974487
0865974497
9780865974494

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