Francis Hutcheson
Hutcheson, Francis
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Correspondence and Occasional Writings
by Francis Hutcheson
/ Learn MoreFrancis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was one of the most influential figures in the Scottish Enlightenment. Correspondence and Occasional Writings makes unknown and little-known writings available in a modern edition. It collects his private correspondence for the first time, as well as letters and occasional writings published from journals in England, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Hutcheson’s private correspondence contains many reflections on his own writings,…
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An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense
by Francis Hutcheson
/ Learn MoreIn An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense, Francis Hutcheson answers the criticism that had been leveled against his first book, Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725). Together the two works constitute the great innovation in philosophy for which Hutcheson is most well…
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An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
by Francis Hutcheson
/ Learn MoreFrancis 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…
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Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind
by Francis Hutcheson
/ Learn MoreUntil the publication of this Liberty Fund edition, all but one of the works contained in Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind were available only in Latin. This milestone English translation will provide a general audience with insight into Hutcheson’s thought. Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of moral…
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The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
by Francis Hutcheson and James Moor
/ Learn MoreThis 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Francis Hutcheson and a colleague at Glasgow University, the classicist James Moor. Although Hutcheson was secretive about the extent of his work on the book, he was clearly the leading spirit of the project. This influential classical work offers a vision of a universe governed by a natural law that obliges us…
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Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, with A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy
by Francis Hutcheson
/ Learn MoreIn 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)…
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