Essays on Principles of Morality and Natural Religion.

Essays on Principles of Morality and Natural Religion Henry Home, Lord Kames Published by Liberty Fund Home, Henry and Lord Kames. Essays on Principles of Morality and Natural Religion.

This article investigates the discussion of the origins and development of religious belief within the Scottish jurist and philosopher Henry Home, Lord Kames's Essays on the Principles of Morality and.

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Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion. Henry Home Kames - 1751 - Garland. Editorial Notes. R. J.. Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion: Several Essays Added Concerning the Proof of a Deity. Henry Home Kames - 2005 - Liberty Fund. Analytics.

Moran's comparison of the more or less static concept of human nature given in Essays with the better-known savage-to-civilization progress theory of Kames's Sketches of the History of Man (1774) illuminates the significant tension in Kames's work between historicism and commitment to a notion of a providential system.

The Essays is commonly considered Kames’s most important philosophical work. In the first part, he sets forth the principles and foundations of morality and justice, attacking Hume’s moral skepticism and addressing the controversial issue of the freedom of human will. In the second part, Kames focuses on questions of metaphysics and epistemology to offer a natural theology in which the.

In Historical Law-Tracts, Kames combined the natural law framework that underlies his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion with the “conjectural,” or philosophical, approach to history that would receive its fullest treatment in his Sketches of the History of Man to offer a history of law as a history of the progress of mankind from savage to civil society.

In his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751), Henry Home, Lord Kames, proposes a novel solution to the free will problem. He admits that we naturally believe that we possess a libertarian freedom of choice; but argues that this natural belief is in fact false, given us by God in order that we be prompted to act, and in order that we think of ourselves as morally.

The Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion are Kames’s most important and most comprehensive philosophical work. They are, however, not a comprehensive philosophical text, rather a critical answer to David Hume, especially a criticism of Hume’s occasionalist concept of causality and his idea of justice as not a natural, but artificial (conventionalist, utilitarian.

In addition to Smith ’ s Wealth of Nations, Lord Kames ’ s Essays on Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751), John Millar ’ s Observations Concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society (1771), Ferguson ’ s An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767), and William Robertson ’ s The History of Scotland (1794) were each in the forefront of developing the argument that.

Kames wrote a number of books, several of them on legal subjects. His Sketches of the History of Man (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1774) bridged his interests in history and philosophy, and he frequently referred to the Sketches in his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (3rd ed., Edinburgh, 1779).

This is the first edition in over a century to present David Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Dissertation on the Passions, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Natural History of Religion in the format he intended: collected together in a single volume. Hume has suffered a fate unusual among great philosophers. His principal philosophical work is no longer.