Francis Hutcheson
Subtitle: an inquiry concerning beauty, order, harmony, design.
By: Edited, with an introd. and notes by Peter Kivy.
Contributors: Kivy, Peter, ed.; Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746.; Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746.
Series: Archives internationales d'histoire des idées. Series minor,; 9
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
Published: 1973
Place of publication: The Hague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Ethics; Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Inquiry concerning beauty, order, harmony, design.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
An inquiry concerning beauty, order, harmony, design is the first of two treatises which together comprise the Inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue, first published in 1725; the three papers which comprise the Reflections upon laughter were previously published in 1750 as part of a work titled Reflections upon laughter, and remarks upon the fable of the bees.