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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782
Other Authors: Moran, Mary Catherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Indianapolis, IN : Liberty Fund, 2005.
Edition:3rd ed., corrected and improved.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ethik
Erkenntnistheorie
Ethics.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
ethics (philosophy)
Morale.
Ethics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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