Sittenlehre der Vernunft

Author(s)

• Hutcheson, Francis
• Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
• Klemme, Heiner

Bibliographic Information

Sittenlehre der Vernunft

Francis Hutcheson ; translated by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ; with an introduction by Heiner F. Klemme

（Reception of the Scottish enlightenment in Germany : six significant translations, 1755-1782 / edited and introduced by Heiner F. Klemme, 2-3）

Thoemmes Press, 2000

• : set
• 1
• 2

Other Title

A system of moral philosophy

Note

Facsim. reprint. Originally published: Leipzig : Johann Wendler, 1756

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Scottish philosophy had a decisive impact in the 18th century, not only on the English-speaking world but also on the Enlightment in central Europe. That impact was perhaps most greatly felt in Germany, where the advancement of Scottish moral sense philosophy, Hume's Scepticism and Common Sense philosophy was marked by a series of important translations. Six of the most significant texts, most of them very rare today, are reprinted here. Although some of the works by Scottish philosophers were known and discussed before the death of Christian Wolff, their importance increased considerably after the decline of German school metaphysics around the middle of the century. English at that time was less widely known, so the German editions became highly influential. The translations were often by important German Enlightenment thinkers and philosophers such as Lessing and Christian Garve, and several were provided with interesting introductions and commentaries by their translators and editions. In the case of Hume's first "Enquiry", the editor Johann Georg Sulzer, an adherent of Wolffian metaphysics, commented extensively on Hume's philosophy. It was this translation that famously woke Kant from his "dogmatic slumber".

Table of Contents

• Volume 1: David Hume, Philosophie Versuche uber die Menschliche ErkenntniB, from the 2nd, enlarged English edition (1755). Volume 2 and 3: Francis Hutcheson, Sittenlehre der Vernunft (1756). Volume 4: Adam Smith, Theorie der moralischen Empfindungen, from the 3rd English edition (1770). Volume 5: James Beattie, Versuch uber die Natur und Unveranderlichkeit der Wahrheit
• im Gegensatze der Klugeley und Zweifelsucht (1772). Volume 6: Adam Ferguson, Grundsatze der Moralphilosophie (1772). Volume 7, Thomas Reid (Untersuchungen uber den menschlichen Geist nach den Grudnsatzen des gemeinen Menschenverstandes, from the 3rd English edition (1782).

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Details

• NCID: BA50168365
• ISBN:
  • 1855068400
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: ger
• Text Language Code: ger
• Original Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bristol
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA50166337