Lord Kames: selected writings

by Rahmatian, Andreas

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Full title :Lord Kames : selected writings / edited and introduced by Andreas Rahmatian.

Summary

The judge, jurist and philosopher Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) was a polymath and one of the principal personalities of the Scottish Enlightenment. As a teacher and mentor of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to some extent, he published works on law and legal history, moral philosophy, aesthetics and rhetoric, anthropology and sociology of law, and on the economic and agricultural improvement of Scotland. He saw these disciplines as elements of a philosophical history of man that developed in certain stages, and he considered law as part of all these subjects. Kames was a widely read author in the eighteenth century, and some of his works were translated into French and German at the time. His influence on German men of letters and on some of the Founders of the United States was considerable. This anthology contains characteristic passages from Kames's works, particularly from his Sketches of the History of Man (1774), a comprehensive synoptic work which presents Kames's idea of the progress of man, of society, and of the sciences, from the Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751), a critique of Hume and an important work of Scottish Common Sense philosophy, from the Elements of Criticism (1762) on aesthetics, rhetoric and literary criticism, and from the Principles of Equity (1760) and the Historical Law-Tracts (1758) as his main works on law and legal history. --

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Imprint Academic
Place of Publication:Exeter
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 242 p. 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1845409124, 9781845409128
oclc:ocn953428996
LC Classification:B1435.A35
Dewey Decimal:192-KAM

Machine generated contents note: I.Aesthetics and Rhetoric -- 1.Definitions; Aesthetics -- a).External and Internal Sense -- b).Perception, Sensation and Conception -- c).Emotions and Passions -- d).Intrinsic and Relative Beauty -- 2.Rhetoric -- a).External Signs of Emotions and Passions -- b).Sentiments -- c).Tropes and Figures -- 3.Standards of Taste -- II.Philosophical History -- 1.Progress and Stage Theory of Human Society -- a).Definition of Conjectural History -- b).Examples of Conjectural History: General -- c).Conjectural Progress of the Political System -- d).Conjectural History in relation to Criminal Law -- e).Conjectural History in relation to Contractual Obligations -- f).Conjectural History in relation to Property -- 2.Origin of Men and Human Races -- 3.Development of Reasoning -- 4.Progress of Religion and Worshipping -- III.Moral Philosophy and Legal Philosophy -- 1.Reasoning: Principles -- 2.Moral Sense, Duty and Justice -- 3.Liberty and Necessity

Note continued: 4.Causation -- 5.Application of Moral Philosophy in the Law: Contract, Tort and Crime -- 6.Legal History and Legal Science -- IV.Property and Equity -- 1.Concept of Property -- 2.Abolition of Feudalism -…