Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, with a Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics

by Francis Hutcheson, Luigi Turco (Editor)

In this new, dual-language edition, Hutcheson’s Latin Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria is presented on facing pages with its English translation, A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, together with all the relevant alterations of the 1745 edition relating to the 1742 edition of the Institutio, including all the omissions and additions by the translator in the Short Introduction.

Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of moral philosophy in 1729.

Luigi Turco is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna.

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632 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Francis Hutcheson was an Irish philosopher born in Ulster to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became known as one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment. He is remembered for his book A System of Moral Philosophy.

Hutcheson took ideas from John Locke, and he was an important influence on the works of several significant Enlightenment thinkers, including David Hume and Adam Smith.

Reviews

[Craig Bolton]

PHILOSOPHIAE MORALIS INSTITUTIO COMPENDIARIA (Natural Law Cloth) by FRANCIS HUTCHESON (2007)