Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria

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Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria

Name: Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria
Brand: Liberty Fund Inc. (US)
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with A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Written by Francis Hutcheson and Luigi Turco

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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."

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.

ISBN-13: 9780865974524
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Imprint: Liberty Fund Inc. (US)
Publication date: 2 July 2007
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
Dimensions: 155 x 230 mm
Language: English