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Home, Henry, lord Kames (1696-1782). Filósofo inglés, nacido en Kames (Escocia) y muerto en Edimburgo. Estudió leyes y prestó servicio como juez en la Alta Corte de Justicia desde 1763 hasta su muerte. Aparte de sus trabajos jurídicos, deben destacarse las obras: Essay on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751), obra en la ...
9 de mar. de 2013 · The purpose of the present study is to present the life and work and thought of a remarkable pioneering figure on the Scottish scene over the middle half, broadly, of the eighteenth century, in their dynamic relations with that most extraordinary intellectual awakening and scientific, edu cational, literary and religious development of his time generally known as the "Scottish Enlightenment.
Lord Kames (Henry Home) (1696-1782) Henry Home was a Scottish jurist who took the title Lord Kames when he ascended to the bench in 1752. He was a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment and took as protégés James Boswell, David Hume and Adam Smith. Kames was a necessitarian or determinist, as we say today.
1 de jun. de 2015 · Abstract. Lord Kames (Henry Home, 1696–1782) is one of the best known figures of the Scottish Enlightenment by name, and one of the least known in relation to his actual writings. He was a Scottish judge, jurist, philosopher of legal history, moral philosopher, reformer. He was the example of an erudite Enlightenment man and uomo universale.
14 de ene. de 2002 · With his letter of Feb. 21, 1769, therefore, Franklin sent “a Copy of it from my Book.” 7 The editors believe that the surviving manuscript dated Feb. 25, 1767, marked “Copy” and wholly in Franklin’s hand is the replacement Franklin made from his letterbook copy of the lost original and sent to Kames on Feb. 21, 1769. 8.
Lord Kames treats its subject in twelve chapters: an introduction, four on philosophy, five on law, one on the early United States, and a conclusion. After a rousing introduction, Chapters II and III place Kames' understanding of beauty in the tradition of Shaftesbury (31, 39), casting human convictions about moral right and wrong as the offspring of emotions and passions (23–24).
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 ...
