Author: David Hume
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Life of the author [by himself] Letter from Adam Smith to William Strachan and Letter-will and testament of Mr. Hume. Account of the controversy between Hume and Rousseau. List of Scotticisms. Treatise of human nature: book 1
Author: David Hume
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Letters of David Hume to William Strahan
Author: David Hume
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Annals of Scotland
Author: Sir David Dalrymple
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The Life of David Hume, Esq
Author: David Hume
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Letter relating to Hume's last illness and death from Adam Smith to William Strahan.
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Letter relating to Hume's last illness and death from Adam Smith to William Strahan.
The Testament of John Davidson
Author: John Davidson
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911576038
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. Bentham’s early life is marked by his extraordinary precociousness, but also family tragedy: by the age of 10 he had lost five infant siblings and his mother. The letters in this volume document his difficult relationship with his father and his increasing attachment to his surviving younger brother Samuel, his education, his interest in chemistry and botany, and his committing himself to a life of philosophy and legal reform.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911576038
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. Bentham’s early life is marked by his extraordinary precociousness, but also family tragedy: by the age of 10 he had lost five infant siblings and his mother. The letters in this volume document his difficult relationship with his father and his increasing attachment to his surviving younger brother Samuel, his education, his interest in chemistry and botany, and his committing himself to a life of philosophy and legal reform.
Historical and critical
Author: Edward Gibbon
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 632
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Languages : fr
Pages : 632
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Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199570736
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence is part of the introduction to the projected penal code on which Bentham worked in the late 1770s and early 1780s. An editorial introduction explains the provenance of the work, which is fully annotated with textual and historical notes.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199570736
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence is part of the introduction to the projected penal code on which Bentham worked in the late 1770s and early 1780s. An editorial introduction explains the provenance of the work, which is fully annotated with textual and historical notes.
Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume
Author: Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498586112
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
The Letter to Strahan is an ostensible letter that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume, and published alongside Hume’s autobiography, My Own Life, in 1777. Other than his two books, it is the only work that Smith published under his name during his lifetime, and it elicited a great deal of commentary and controversy. Because of Hume’s reputation for impiety, Smith’s portrayal of his friend’s cheerfulness and equanimity during his final days provoked outrage among the devout. Smith later commented that this work “brought upon me ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain”—meaning, of course, The Wealth of Nations. This is the first annotated version of this fascinating and important work. Along with the Letter to Strahan, the volume also includes Hume’s My Own Life, the work to which the Letter was a kind of companion piece; two personal letters related to the Letter; and three published responses to the Letter—two viciously critical and one generally favorable. A substantial editor’s introduction discusses the context, composition, publication, and significance of the Letter, along with the strong reaction that it provoked. Taken together, the works included in the volume provide an entertaining and accessible entrée into some of the most controversial debates over religion and morality in the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498586112
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
The Letter to Strahan is an ostensible letter that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume, and published alongside Hume’s autobiography, My Own Life, in 1777. Other than his two books, it is the only work that Smith published under his name during his lifetime, and it elicited a great deal of commentary and controversy. Because of Hume’s reputation for impiety, Smith’s portrayal of his friend’s cheerfulness and equanimity during his final days provoked outrage among the devout. Smith later commented that this work “brought upon me ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain”—meaning, of course, The Wealth of Nations. This is the first annotated version of this fascinating and important work. Along with the Letter to Strahan, the volume also includes Hume’s My Own Life, the work to which the Letter was a kind of companion piece; two personal letters related to the Letter; and three published responses to the Letter—two viciously critical and one generally favorable. A substantial editor’s introduction discusses the context, composition, publication, and significance of the Letter, along with the strong reaction that it provoked. Taken together, the works included in the volume provide an entertaining and accessible entrée into some of the most controversial debates over religion and morality in the eighteenth century.
Sermons
Author: Ralph Erskine
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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