Lord Kames

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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 d…

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Full title :Lord Kames.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Andrews UK
Place of Publication:Luton, Bedfordshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

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Description:1 online resource (163 pages)

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ISBN:9781845409296, 1845409299
oclc:ocn991543963
LC Classification:DA810.K3
Dewey Decimal:192

Cover; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Series Editor's Note; Body matter; Andreas Rahmatian: Introduction; 1. Lord Kames's Life and Works; 2. Kames's System of Moral and Legal Philosophy; 3. Kames's Idea of Progress of Human Society: Philosophical and Anthropological History; 4. Bibliography; 5. Editor's Notes; I. Aesthetics and Rhetoric; 1. Definitions; Aesthetics; 2. Rhetoric; 3. Standard of Taste; II. Philosophical History; 1. Progress and Stage Theory of Human Society; 2. Origin of Men and Human Races; 3. Development of Reasoning; 4. Progress of Religion and Worshipping.

III. Moral Philosophy and Legal Philosophy1. Reasoning: Principles; 2. Moral Sense, Duty and Justice; 3. Liberty and Necessity; 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; 3. Equity; V. Enlightened Improvement of Society; 1. Progress of Commerce; 2. Progress of Flax-Husbandry in Scotland; Back matter; Also available.