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The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Francis Hutcheson
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Description for The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Hardcover. Num Pages: 241 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.
This 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Frances Hutcheson and a colleague at Glasgow University, the classicist James Moor. Although Hutcheson was secretive about the extent of his work on the book, he was clearly the leading spirit of the project. This influential classical work offered a vision of a universe governed by a natural law that obliges us to love mankind and to govern our lives in accordance with the natural order of things. In their account of the life of the emperor, prefaced to their translation from the Greek, Hutcheson and Moor celebrated the Stoic ideal of ... Read more
This 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Frances Hutcheson and a colleague at Glasgow University, the classicist James Moor. Although Hutcheson was secretive about the extent of his work on the book, he was clearly the leading spirit of the project. This influential classical work offered a vision of a universe governed by a natural law that obliges us to love mankind and to govern our lives in accordance with the natural order of things. In their account of the life of the emperor, prefaced to their translation from the Greek, Hutcheson and Moor celebrated the Stoic ideal of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780865975101
SKU
V9780865975101
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About Francis Hutcheson
Francis Hutcheson 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 ... Read more
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