Lectures on Jurisprudence.

Meek, R. L., D.D. Raphael (eds.) and Adam Smith:

Published by Indianapolis: LibertyClassic, 1982

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610 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Seitenschnitt angeschmutzt, Einband etwas bestoßen, an den Rändern verfärbt, sonst guter Zustand / Page edges soiled, binding somewhat bumped, discoloured at edges, otherwise good condition. - Introduction: 1. Adam Smith's Lectures at Glasgow University Adam Smith was elected to the Chair of Logic at Glasgow University on 9 January 1751, and admitted to the office on 16 January. He does not appear to have started lecturing at the University, however, until the beginning of the next academic session, in October 1751, when he embarked upon his first and only course of lectures to the Logic class. In the well-known account of Smith s lectures at Glasgow which John Millar supplied to Dugald Stewart, this Logic course of 1751 is described as follows: In the Professorship of Logic, to which Mr Smith was appointed on his first introduction into this University, he soon saw the necessity of departing widely from the plan that had been followed by his predecessors, and of directing the attention of his pupils to studies of a more interesting and useful nature than the logic and metaphysics of the schools. Accordingly, after exhibiting a general view of the powers of the mind, and explaining so much of the ancient logic as was requisite to gratify curiosity with respect to an artificial method of reasoning, which had once occupied the universal attention of the learned, he dedicated all the rest of his time to the delivery of a system of rhetoric and belles lettres. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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• Title: Lectures on Jurisprudence.
• Publisher: Indianapolis: LibertyClassic
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• Binding: Softcover.
• Condition: Gut
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