Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics): Revised Edition - Softcover

Hutcheson, F; Leidhold, W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865977747 ISBN 13: 9780865977747

Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

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Synopsis:

Francis Hutcheson's first book, "An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue", was published in 1725, when its author was only thirty-one, and went through four editions during his lifetime. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment is now available for the first time in a variorum edition based on the 1726 edition. The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury.It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. Francis Hutcheson was a crucial link between the continental European natural law tradition and the emerging Scottish Enlightenment. Hence, he is a pivotal figure in the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series. A contemporary of Lord Kames and George Turnbull, an acquaintance of David Hume, and the teacher of Adam Smith, Hutcheson was arguably the leading figure in making Scotland distinctive within the general European Enlightenment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0865977747
• ISBN 13: 9780865977747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 271