Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion /
"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 lumi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Indianapolis, IN :
Liberty Fund,
2005.
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Edición: | 3rd ed., corrected and improved. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.