An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue; in two treatises, rev. ed.

9780865977730

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue; in two treatises, rev. ed.

Hutcheson, Francis. Ed. by Wolfgang Leidhold.

Liberty Fund, Inc.

2008

271 pages

$20.00

Hardcover

Natural law and enlightenment classics

BJ1005

Scottish philosopher Hutcheson (1694-1746) examines the foundations of his aesthetic, moral, and political philosophy, the first treatise dealing with perception and the principles of aesthetics and the second with ethics and to some degree their political consequences. In general, says Leidhold (political science, U. of Cologne), his theory is a complex of subjective sense, an objective foundation, and an analytical formula. The treatises were first published in 1725; no date is cited for the revised edition.

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