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Divided into three books, Kames’s Sketches of the History of Man draws together the concerns of many of his earlier works. The first book considers man in the private sphere, while the second explores man in the public sphere. The final book is an account of progress in the sciences of logic, morals, and theology. Throughout the entire work, Kames expounds on his fundamental hypothesis that, at the beginning of the history of the human race, savagery was ubiquitous and that the human story is one of an emergence out of barbarism and toward maturity.
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment.
James A. Harris is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
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Historical Law-Tracts is one of the earliest contributions to the Scottish Enlightenment project of a historical science of society. Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782), was an influential Scottish juEAe, a prolific man of letters, and one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in Scotland, and his goal in this work is to show the study of law as a genuinely scientific inquiry and not a mere collection of facts for the lawyer to memorize. He deployed a large range of ancient, medieval, and early-modern sources to trace the development of law and to explain that development in terms of interactions between principles of human nature and political, economic, and social circumstance. He applied this method in substantial and influential treatments of criminal law and the law of property and also to a diverse range of issues, specifically in Scots law. One of Kames’s principal objectives was to expose and discredit the continuing influence of feudal principles in eighteenth-century Scots law and, as such, Historical Law-Tracts can be read as a manifesto for a modern, commercial, Scotland. The work found an international readership as well, especially in America, where it was read as an object lesson in understanding the role of law in a free society.
In Historical Law-Tracts, Kames combined the natural law framework that underlies his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion with the “conjectural,” or philosophical, approach to history that would receive its fullest treatment in his Sketches of the History of Man to offer a history of law as a history of the progress of mankind from savage to civil society.
The Liberty Fund edition supplements Kames’s original text with a new introduction providing historical context and biographical information, expansion of Kames’s footnotes to explain the often rather obscure system of reference used in the book, translation of the Latin passages, and explanatory annotations relating to important changes that Kames made to the text, including variant readings from earlier editions.
James A. Harris is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Hume: An Intellectual Biography and Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy. He is the editor of the Liberty Fund edition of Kames’s Sketches of the History of Man.
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David Hume (1711 1776) är en av Storbritanniens största tänkare genom tiderna. James A. Harris Hume: Liv och tänkande är den första större studien av hans litterära karriär i sin helhet. Här sätts Humes alla arbeten in i sin biografiska och historiska kontext, från det epokgörande ungdomsverket A Treatise of Human Nature till det historiska standardverket The History of England. Vi får ta del av alla betydelsefulla händelser i Humes liv, med fokus på hans strävan att anlägga ett filosofiskt perspektiv på tillvarons alla områden från människans natur till politik, handel, religion och engelsk historia. Här framträder Hume som en filosof inriktad på att förverkliga upplysningens ideal om att skapa en öppen och objektiv, rigorös och lidelsefri dialog om tidens alla viktiga frågor.
James Harris är professor och prefekt vid institutionen för historisk filosofi vid Saint Andrews-universitetet i Skottland. Hans forskning fokuserar på tidigmodern filosofi samt upplysningen.