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Hutcheson: Two Texts on Human Nature

By Francis Hutcheson

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
9780521057103, 0521057108, 9780521430890, 0521430895, 9780511521522
LCC
B1501 .O5 1993
Open Library ID
OL1720574M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9182457 bytes)
Pages
212\208
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Francis Hutcheson was the first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, and one of the great thinkers in the history of British moral philosophy. He firmly rejected the view, common then as now, that morality is nothing more than the prudent pursuit of self-interest, arguing in favor of a theory of a moral sense. The two previously inaccessible texts presented here are the most eloquent expressions of this theory. Thomas Mautner's introduction provides a mass of new information on the intellectual context of Hutcheson's work.

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