Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, With a Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Hutcheson Francis

ISBN 10: 0865974535 / ISBN 13: 9780865974531

Published by Liberty Fund, Incorporated, 2007

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pp. 632.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, With a Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy
• Publisher: Liberty Fund, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865974535
• ISBN 13: 9780865974531
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This publication is a parallel edition of the English and Latin versions of a book designed by Hutcheson for use in the classroom. General Editor Knud Haakonssen remarks that "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 was a curriculum crucially influenced by Hutcheson's predecessor Gershom Carmichael, and at its center was modern natural jurisprudence as systematised by Grotius, Pufendorf, and others . . . The Institutio is the first major [published] attempt by Hutcheson to deal with natural law on his own terms . . . It therefore encapsulates the axis of natural law and Scottish Enlightenment ideas, which so many other thinkers, including Adam Smith, worked with in their different ways. It is of great significance that this work issued from the class in which Smith sat as a student."

Product Description

In this new, dual-language edition, Hutcheson's Latin Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria is presented on facing pages with its English translation, A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, together with all the relevant alterations of the 1745 edition relating to the 1742 edition of the Institutio, including all the omissions and additions by the translator in the Short Introduction.

Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of moral philosophy in 1729.

Luigi Turco is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna.

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