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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 October 2009
      29 July 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511521522
      9780521430890
      9780521057103
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521522
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.397kg, 212 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (235 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.31kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy Texts, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Texts in Political Thought
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    Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) 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 reductionist view, common then as now, that morality is nothing more than the prudent pursuit of self-interest, arguing in favour of a theory of a moral sense. The two texts presented here are the most eloquent expressions of this theory. The Reflections on our Common Systems of Morality insists on the connection between moral philosophy and moral improvement, and was a preview of his first major work, the Inquiry of 1725. The lecture On the Social Nature of Man, arguing against the psychological egoism of Hobbes, appears here in an English translation for the first time. Thomas Mautner's introduction and editorial apparatus provide a mass of new information, helping to give the reader a sense of the intellectual climate in which Hutcheson lived.

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    "...we are fortunate to have these texts available. The volume will be of interest to both eighteenth-century specialists and those concerned with the history of moral philosophy." Canadian Philosophical Reviews

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