Antient Metaphysics, or the Science of Universals.

Burnett, James (Lord Monboddo)

ISBN 10: 1855068664 / ISBN 13: 9781855068667

Edité par Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 2001

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A new set of this 2001 reprint of Burnett's work. Volume 1 is unwrapped, but columes 2 - 6 are still in acetate wrapping. Burnett's ideas were idiosyncratic at the time - predating Darwin by postulating that man is descended from "orangutans" - who lived in a Rousseauian idyll. Good introduction by Aaron Garrett of Boston University.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Antient Metaphysics, or the Science of Universals.
• Éditeur: Thoemmes Press, Bristol
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1855068664
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781855068667
• Reliure: Buckram
• Édition: Reprint of 1779-99 Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Combining Scottish conjectural history and Platonist metaphysics, this work has been largely ignored to date due to its complexity and unavailability. The first two volumes are concerned with mind and causation whilst the third covers the origin of language (the subject of Monboddo's other major publication). Volumes four and five bear the subtitle "history of man" and the final volume discusses the being and nature of God.