Home, Henry(1696–1782)
Henry Home (Lord Kames), an aesthetician and moral philosopher, was born at Kames, Berwickshire, Scotland. He was educated at home and indentured to a writer of the signe...
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Judging by most assessments of his work, from both his contemporaries and recent commentators, Henry Home, Lord Kames, was not a startlingly original thinker. Samuel Johnson qualified his praise for K...
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Henry Home was a hardheaded but sensitive lawyer whose abilities and disciplined research took him to the top of his profession and made him for more than forty years a dominant figure in the Scottish...
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