Thomas Brown - Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Philadelphia, John Grigg, 1824. First edition. Leather. A nice set of the first U.S. edition of Thomas Brown's lectures on moral philosophy. The first U.S. edition, published four years after the true first edition.Complete in three volumes.This set collects together one hundred lectures by Thomas Brown on moral philosophy, popular lectures which introduced a wide audience to the art of philosophy and how it applies to morals.Brown was the professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh for a decade. He was renowned for his structured thinking and metaphysical analysis.Lectures in this work include 'Relation of the Philosophy of Mind to the Cultivation of Moral Feeling', 'On Consciousness', 'Particular Consideration of our Sensations', 'Inquiry into the Causes of the difference of Liveliness in the suggested Feelings', 'Wonder at what is New and Strange', 'Analysis of the Process of Reasoning', 'The Emotion of Beauty an original Feeling of the Mind', 'Direct Desire of Power, as in Ambition', 'On the Duties of Benevolence', 'On the Immortality of the Soul', and more, In a full tree calf binding. Externally, smart. Light rubbing to the joints and extremities. A few minor marks to the boards and spines, a little heavier to the boards of Volume II. A little light bumping to the extremities. Hinges of Volume I are starting but firm. Institutional label to the paste downs. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front free endpaper. Small patch of worming to the front paste down of Volume I, and to the rear paste down of Volume III. Small chip to the rear endpaper of Volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with scattered spots. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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