Scottish-born John Witherspoon (1723-1794) was educated at Edinburgh University and became a prominent minister in the Church of Scotland. In 1768 he was persuaded to cross the Atlantic to become sixth president and leading professor of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). From then on he played an important part in American public life, publishing many sermons and writings in support of the Revolutionary cause and signing the Declaration of Independence. He was also among the main importers of Scottish realist philosophy into the new world, where it would dominate intellectual life through the 19th century. Witherspoon's four-volume "Works" contains the lectures from his famous course on moral philosophy that he gave to each senior class, as well as his lectures on eloquence and essays on various social and political topics. Also included are important selections from his correspondence, speeches to Congress, and 47 sermons. The original books are exceedingly rare and until now most scholars have had access to them only via microfilm. This facsimile of the revised and corrected second edition (1802) with a substantial new introduction by L.
Gordon Tait should be welcomed by a wide variety of historians of American thought.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 216 mm
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978-1-84371-101-8 (9781843711018)
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Volume 1 (c. 600pp): a funeral discourse; an essay on justification; treatise on regeneration; sixteen sermons. Volume 2 (585pp): twenty-eight sermons. Volume 3 (591pp): three sermons; an address to the students of the senior class; a serious inquiry into the nature and effects of the stage; a letter respecting play actors; ecclesiastical characteristics; the history of a corporation of servants; lectures on moral philosophy; lectures on eloquence. Volume 4 (486pp): introductory lecture on divinity; letters on education; letters on marriage; address to the inhabitants of Jamaica; an essay on money; an humble supplication; speech in the General Assembly; letter sent to Scotland for the Scots magazine; ignorance of the British with respect to America; reflections on the present state of public affairs; thoughts on American liberty; on the controversy about independence; on conducting the American controversy; Aristides; speeches in Congress; on the proposed market in General Washington's camp; address to General Washington; memorial and manifesto of the United States of North America; on the contest between Great Britain and America; on the affairs of the United States; observations on the improvement of America; supplication of J.R.; recantation of Benjamin Towne; a description of the state of New Jersey; a few reflections on the Federal City; On the Georgia constitution; "The Druid", originally published in numbers periodically.
