{"product_id":"9781614871965","title":"Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, with A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy","description":"This Liberty Fund publication of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhilosophiae\u003cbr\u003eMoralis Institutio Compendiaria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a parallel\u003cbr\u003eedition of the English and Latin versions of a book\u003cbr\u003edesigned by Hutcheson for use in the classroom. General\u003cbr\u003eEditor Knud Haakonssen remarks that “Hutcheson’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eInstitutio\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e was written as a textbook for university\u003cbr\u003estudents and it therefore covers a curriculum which has\u003cbr\u003ean institutional background in his own university,\u003cbr\u003eGlasgow. This was a curriculum crucially influenced by\u003cbr\u003eHutcheson’s predecessor Gershom Carmichael, and at its\u003cbr\u003ecenter was modern natural jurisprudence as systematized\u003cbr\u003eby Grotius, Pufendorf, and others. . . . The \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eInstitutio\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is\u003cbr\u003ethe first major [published] attempt by Hutcheson to deal\u003cbr\u003ewith natural law on his own terms. . . . It therefore\u003cbr\u003eencapsulates the axis of natural law and Scottish\u003cbr\u003eEnlightenment ideas, which so many other thinkers,\u003cbr\u003eincluding Adam Smith, worked with in their different\u003cbr\u003eways. It is of great significance that this work issued from\u003cbr\u003ethe class in which Smith sat as a student.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor Luigi Turco comments that “the aim of the text\u003cbr\u003ewas twofold: on one hand, to put forward an optimistic\u003cbr\u003eview of God, human nature, and the harmony of the\u003cbr\u003euniverse; on the other hand, to provide students with the\u003cbr\u003eknowledge of natural and civil law required by the\u003cbr\u003euniversity curriculum. Hutcheson starts from Pufendorf’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDe officio hominis et civis\u003c\/em\u003e (itself an abridgment of his\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDe jure naturae et gentium\u003c\/em\u003e)—the text that was most\u003cbr\u003ewidely read within Protestant universities—but modifies\u003cbr\u003eits moral foundations.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancis Hutcheson\u003c\/strong\u003e was a crucial link between the continental European natural law tradition and the emerging Scottish Enlightenment. Hence, he is a pivotal figure in the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series. A contemporary of Lord Kames and George Turnbull, an acquaintance of David Hume, and the teacher of Adam Smith, Hutcheson was arguably the leading figure in making Scotland distinctive within the general European Enlightenment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLuigi Turco\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of\u003cbr\u003eBologna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnud Haakonssen\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of\u003cbr\u003eIntellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of\u003cbr\u003eSussex, England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177170485488,"sku":"9781614871965","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614871965_p0.jpg?v=1763850261","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614871965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}