Publication

2004-04-01 - Liberty Fund

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads379752

Classifications

  • LCCBJ1005.H88 2004

Description

"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.

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Other Editions

  • An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)HardcoverLiberty Fund2004-04-01

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