| An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hutcheson, Francis (Author), Leidhold, Wolfgang (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0865977739 ISBN-13: 9780865977730 Publisher: Liberty Fund OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 171.2 |
| LCCN: 2008015089 |
| Series: Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.55 lbs) 271 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 (1694-1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of moral philosophy in 1729. Wolfgang Leidhold is Professor of Political Science at the University of Cologne. |
