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Hutcheson: Two Texts on Human Nature

Name: Hutcheson: Two Texts on Human Nature
Author: Francis Hutcheson
ISBN: 9780521057103

by Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Mautner

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Overview

Francis Hutcheson 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 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 previously inaccessible texts presented here are the most eloquent expressions of this theory. Thomas Mautner's introduction provides a mass of new information on the intellectual context of Hutcheson's work.

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Two texts by a leading figure in British moral philosophy, supported by a mass of background editorial information.

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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