Name: Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 3 -- Essays in Religion, Politics, & Morality
Brand: Liberty Fund Inc. (US)
SKU: 9780865970519
Price: 11.95 GBP
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Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 3 -- Essays in Religion, Politics, & Morality

By (author): H B Acton

Published by Liberty Fund Inc. (US)

In Stock

£11.95

Format: Paperback
Pages: 716
ISBN: 9780865970519
Publication Date: 01-Jan-1998

Subjects:
Literary essays
General & world history
Ethics & moral philosophy
Philosophy of religion
Political science & theory

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Focuses on the intersection of religion with moral and political issues. Also included are three important essays: Human Sacrifice; George Eliot's Life; and Buckle's Philosophy of History. The last section is composed of nearly two hundred pages of excerpts from Acton's remarkable letters and unpublished notes.

H B Acton (1908-1974) taught at Bedford College (London), the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Chicago; was editor of Philosophy, the influential journal of the British Royal Institute of Philosophy; and wrote, among other books, The Morals of Markets (1971; Liberty Fund, 1993) and The Philosophy of Language in Revolutionary France (1959).