[HUTCHESON (Francis)]:
Synopsis Metaphysicae Ontologiam et Pneumatologiam Complectens. Editio Tertia, Auctior e AEmendatior.
Glasguae, In Aedibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1749 Small 8vo, 150 x 85 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 134 [135 - 136 adverts], contemporary calf; last blank leaf removed, extremities worn and wormed, end-papers heavily inked, inscriptions on verso of front free end-papper, "Ex Libris/ Thomae Forrest" on tilt-page, other ownership scribbles on rear free end-paper. Hurtcheson's Synopsis Metaphysicae was first published in 1742. "Francis Hutcheson's A Compend of Logic and A Synopsis of Metaphysics represent his only systematic treatments of logic, ontology, and pneumatology, or the science of the soul. They were considered indispensable texts for the instruction of students in the eighteenth century. There were six (posthumous) editions of his Logic;1 and seven editions of his Metaphysics (five of them posthumous).2 Any serious study of Hutcheson's philosophy must take into account his understanding of logic: of ideas and terms, judgments and propositions, reasoning and discourse, topics, fallacies, and method; and metaphysics: of being, substance, cause and effect, the intellect, the will, the soul, the attributes of God" (Liberty Fund online). This text, along with Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria, ethices & jurisprudentiae naturalis elementa continens were intended for student use only. ONDB records that "The Metaphysicae synopsis was an adaptation of the Determinationes ontologicae et pneumatologicae of the Dutch metaphysician Gerard de Vries, the text assigned again by John Loudon, during the several decades of his teaching career at Glasgow (1699–1750)." Gaskell 567

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