: Francis Hutcheson
: Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
: Liberty Fund Inc.
: 9781614871958
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: Philosophie, Religion
: English
This 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Francis Hutcheson anda colleague at Glasgow University, the classicist James Moor. AlthoughHutcheson was secretive about the extent of his work on the book, he wasclearly the leading spirit of the project.This influential classical work offered a vision of a universe governedby a natural law that obliges us to love mankind and to govern our livesin accordance with the natural order of things. In their account of the lifeof the emperor, prefaced to their translation from the Greek, Hutchesonand Moor celebrated the Stoic ideal of an orderly universe governed by abenevolent God. They contrasted the serenity recommended andpracticed by Marcus Aurelius with the divisive sectarianism then exhibitedby their fellow Presbyterians in Scotland and elsewhere. They urged theirreaders and fellow citizens to set aside their narrow prejudices.In many ways, Hutcheson and Moors The Meditations of theEmperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is a companion volume toHutchesons Latin work on ethics, released in the same year, PhilosophiaeMoralis Institutio Compendiaria. In the latter volume, which is also availablefrom Liberty Fund, Hutcheson continues a theme that proffered his ethicsas a modern and, not least, Christianized version of Stoicism. Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University ofSussex, England.