Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow by Cowley

Author:Cowley [Cowley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, Philosophers, History, General
ISBN: 9781625649973
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Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-06-12T02:52:13+00:00

684. Wicksteed notes, GUL:MSGen97/103, 36b.

685. Fleming “Moral Philosophy Chair.”

686. Cousin, Philosophie Morale au XVIIIe Siècle II, Sensualisme.

687. Destutt De Tracy, Cabanis, French-Swiss writer Charles Bonnet, and Maine de Biran, though perhaps only the first and third of these thinkers were known to Mylne.

688. As usual with French philosophers, there is debate on the sincerity of Condillac’s Christianity. I take it that his attitude is expressed in his advice to the prince of Parma: “You cannot be too pious, my lord, but if your piety is not enlightened, you will forget your duties. [. . .] It is not your place that you should live in your court as in a cloister” (Condillac, Cours d’Études, tome 10, 4). His views on the existence of God and the origins of Christianity were orthodox for their day, for example his question why, if the Apostles invented their stories of miracles, they themselves believed. He attributes it partly to miracle, partly to the fulfillment of prophecy.

689. Le Roy, La Psychologie de Condillac, 5.

690. Condillac, Essai sur l’Origine des Connaissances humaines (1973) 1.1.1

691. Ibid., 1.2.11.

692. GC 14/7/1801.

693. GC 22/8/1801.

694. GC 9/10/1802.

695. McCartney, notes to Cicero, The Treatise of Cicero De Officiis, 318–19.

696. Schulthess, Correspondance.

697. Skirving catalogue III-47 in GUL.

698. The first edition of the three-volume Works was 1769 (Jean Sgard, Corpus Condillac). In addition, I have found no reference to the local availability or knowledge of Condillac’s Works in Paisley and Glasgow during Mylne’s time there after an extensive search of book shop adverts in the local press and local library catalogues. The only argument against early ownership would be the likely price of the book.

699. He borrowed Voltaire’s Lettres sur les Anglais from St. Andrews University Library in 1774 ((LY207/1 Vol 2).

700. Condillac, Oeuvres (Paris, 1777). There are copies of the 1777 edition in St. Andrews, Edinburgh and Lausanne University Libraries. For editions of Condillac, see Corpus Condillac, edited by Jean Sgard. Many early editions contain these three volumes, prior to the 1798 edition. The 1777 edition does not have the “Extrait Raisonnée” (found in the modern Fayard edition) to the Traité des Sensations, but it does have the other appendices, including the “Dissertation sur la Liberté.”

701. Mylne also owned Condillac’s Course of Study for the Prince of Parma (1798 edition) and the posthumous Langue des Calculs (1798), thus giving him access to all the works of the posthumous 1798 edition of Condillac other than the Logique (Skirving catalogue, GUL II-37 & III-59). Mylne would have found the schoolboy history of much of the Course of Study thin gruel compared to other history available to him. The Langue des Calculs appears also to be drawn on in some of Mylne’s remarks on mathematics, though his own personal knowledge of mathematics would also be brought into play. These latter works seem most in his mind in the 1799/1800 lectures, whilst the earlier works are the most enduring influences.

702. Fraser, Biographia Philosophica, 42.

703. Mylne’s lecture notes indicate the influence of Condillac more than that of Hartley.

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