Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy. A New Edition with Additional Lectures.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1862. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2309237
Second edition. Boards faintly soiled, armorial bookplate of Richard Lee on front paste-down endpaper, a rather amusing if archaically sexist pencil note on the front free endpaper reads 'A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything worse than a bad one.' with another owner's name (Arthur Hargreaves) and date (Aug 26th 1940).
xvi, 280, 130, [6] pp. 8vo. Red-brown cloth with stamped designs, including a 'passing the torch' motif on the front board. Whewell was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, coined the terms scientist, physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, and astigmatism, and suggested to Michael Faraday the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode. This volume includes 32 lectures, with six on Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and mentions of John Locke, Plato, Aristotle, Saint Aquinas, Saint Augustine, etc.
Price: $75.00