Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy. A New Edition with Additional Lectures.

xvi, 280, 130 pp. 8vo. Leather spine and corners over pebbled cloth boards, morocco spine label, gilt titles. Whewell was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, coined the terms scientist, physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, and astigmatism, and suggested to Michael Faraday the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode. This volume includes 32 lectures, with six on Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and mentions of John Locke, Plato, Aristotle, Saint Aquinas, Saint Augustine, etc.