James Logan's "The duties of man as they may be deduced from nature" : an analysis of the unpublished manuscript /

"James Logan (1674-1751) of Philadelphia was a luminary with few equals in British America in the first half of the eighteenth century. His passion for learning is exemplified in the scholar's library he amassed of nearly 3,000 titles, which had no match in the colonies. He wrote and publi...

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Main Author: Fiering, Norman (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society Press, [2022]
Series:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 111, pt. 3
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society v. 111, pt. 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The moral order from Hobbes to Hutcheson
  • "The duties of man as they may be deduced from nature" : James Logan's unpublished venture into moral philosophy, an analysis
  • Epilogue: Logan and Benjamin Franklin