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Henry Home, mais conhecido como Lord Kames (1696 — 1782) foi um influente filósofo escocês do século XVIII e uma figura marcante do iluminismo escocês. Nascido em Kames , Berwickshire , no leste das Lowlands da Escócia , ele tornou-se um advogado ( advocate , como eles são designados na Escócia, ao contrário de barrister ...
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–27 December 1782) was a Scottish writer, philosopher and judge who played a major role in Scotland's Agricultural Revolution. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment , he was a founding member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh and active in The Select Society .
Henry Home, Lord Kames (born 1696, Kames, Berwickshire, Scot.—died Dec. 27, 1782, Edinburgh) was a lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher. Kames was called to the bar in 1724 and was appointed a judge in the Court of Session in 1752. He became a lord of justiciary in 1763.
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Henry Home (pronounced ‘Hume’) is better known by the name Lord Kames, the title he took when he became a judge in the Scottish Court of Session. The title derives from the family home, Kames House in Berwickshire, where he was born and privately educated.
Henry Home, Lord Kames. 1696 – 1782. Henry Home, Lord Kames, one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment, was a judge in the supreme courts of Scotland and wrote extensively on morals, religion, education, aesthetics, history, political economy, and law, including natural law.
1 de jun. de 2015 · Lord Kames (Henry Home, 1696–1782) is one of the best known figures of the Scottish Enlightenment by name, and one of the least known in relation to his actual writings. He was a Scottish judge, jurist, philosopher of legal history, moral philosopher, reformer. He was the example of an erudite Enlightenment man and uomo universale.
Description. In 1766, Agatha Drummond, the wife of Henry Home, Lord Kames, inherited the family estate at Blair Drummond in Perth and Kames set about a programme of agricultural improvement there. Kames was interested in agricultural improvement in Scotland, viewing it as an important way to make the country wealthy following decades of neglect.
