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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rahmatian, Andreas, editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

Library of Scottish philosophy.

Library of Scottish Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782.

Kames.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Law (Philosophical concept).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Exeter, England : Imprint Academic, 2017.

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 Kame.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

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 Philosophy

1. 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

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 13, 2017).

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ISBN:

1-84540-929-9

OCLC:

991543963