1696 - 1782

Nationality:
Scottish

Historical Period:
The 18th Century

Groups

• The Scottish Enlightenment

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.

Titles:

• Author: British Moralists vol. 2
• Author: Elements of Criticism, 2 vols.
• Author: Elements of Criticism, vol. 1
• Author: Elements of Criticism, vol. 2
• Author: Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
• Author: Principles of Equity
• Author: Sketches of the History of Man, 3 vols.
• Author: Sketches of the History of Man, vol. 1
• Author: Sketches of the History of Man, vol. 2
• Author: Sketches of the History of Man, vol. 3

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)
• Lord Kames argued that neither the King nor Parliament had the right to grant monopolies because they harmed the interests of the people (1778)

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