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Henry Home, Lord Kames

1696 - 1782

About the Author

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. His most distinctive contribution came through his works on the nature of law, where he sought to combine a philosophical approach with an empirical history of legal evolution.

In The Library:

• author: British Moralists, being Selections from Writers principally of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 2 (1897)
• author: Elements of Criticism, 2 vols. (1762)
• author: Elements of Criticism, vol. 1 (1762)
• author: Elements of Criticism, vol. 2 (1762)
• author: Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1779)
• author: Sketches of the History of Man, 3 vols. (1778)
• author: Sketches of the History of Man, vol. 1 (1778)
• author: Sketches of the History of Man, vol. 2 (1778)
• author: Sketches of the History of Man, vol. 3 (1778)

Quotations:

• Lord Kames states that the “hoarding appetite” is part of human nature and that it is the foundation of our notion of property rights (1779) (10 March, 2008)