Henry Home Kames

Henry Home Kames, Lord Kames

Henry Home Kames, Lord Kames (* 1696 at Kames House , Berwickshire ; † December 27, 1782 ) was a Scottish lawyer and philosopher .

Kames was admitted to court in 1724. In 1752 he was appointed judge of the Scottish Civil Court ( Court of Session ) and received the title of Lord Kames . In 1763 he became Lord Commissioner of Justiciary for Scotland ( Lord of Justiciary ).

He was best known for his work "Principles of Criticism " ( Elements of Criticism ). The Sketches of the History of Man (1774) were of decisive importance for Herder's philosophy of history ("Also a philosophy of history for the formation of mankind", 1774).

Works

• Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion. 1751.
• An Introduction to the Art of Thinking. 1761.
• Elements of Criticism. ISBN 0898759412 , 1762.
  English online version in Google Book Search, German online version in Google Book Search
• Sketches of the History of Man. 2 volumes, 1774, "considerably improved" 1778, German: attempts on the history of man , trans. v. Anton Ernst Klausing, 2 volumes, 1774; "Last improved edition", 3 volumes, 1790.
• The gentleman farmer. 1776.

Web links

• Literature by and about Henry Home Kames in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans-Jochem Ostwald: Art or Science. The evaluation of art in the philosophy of the Scottish school. Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 3826031369 , pp. 224–254, some of which are available online at books.google.de .
• Review of Dyck, library of the beautiful sciences and the freyen arts, 9th volume, 1763, (Bielefeld University).
• Philosophy - Anthropology - Aesthetics: The anthropological discourse in the aesthetics of the Scottish Enlightenment and its influence in Germany (Karl-Heinz Schwabe).