An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19599951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francis Hutcheson (corresponding author), John Adams (0000-0002-2727-615X), John Adams Library, Wolfgang Leidhold |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 258 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics) (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University (PUBLISHER • US) |
| OpenAlex | W1547000295 |
| Open Library | OL8327715M |
| ISBN | 9780865974289 |
| Language | EN |
"The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to distinguish virtue from vice and thus to act from moral love or "benevolence.""--Jacket.
Aesthetics · Beauty · Epistemology · Sociology · Virtue · Diverse Topics in Contemporary Research · Philosophy · 18th century · Aesthetics, early works to 1800 · Early works to 1800 · Ethics · Ethics & Moral Philosophy · Ethics, Modern · Modern Ethics · Personal appearance & beauty care · Reference
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |