In his 1758 Historical Law-Tracts , Henry Home, Lord Kames, combines the natural law framework that underlies his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion with the ?conjectural” or
Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete 'Enlightenment man', concerned with the full spectrum of human knowledge and its social use. First published in 1760, this title - in his jurisprudence - expla
In his 1758 Historical Law-Tracts, Henry Home,Lord Kames, combines the natural law framework thatunderlies his Essays on the Principles of Morality andNatural Religion with the “conjectural” or philos
Henry Home (1696-1782) has been called "perhaps the most complete 'Enlightenment man' among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers." Kinsman and friend of David Hume, mentor and patron of Adam Smit
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
Henry Home, Lord Kames, was by nature an advocate for reform and improvement and stood at the heart of the modernizing and liberalizing movement now known as the Scottish Enlightenment. The reaction t
Mostly American scholars of Japanese history and culture offer new approaches to and interpretations of the first three centuries of the Heian period, 794-1086, focusing on the real or imagined config
