{"id":149,"date":"2013-09-03T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:15","slug":"james-dunbar-d-1798","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/03\/james-dunbar-d-1798\/","title":{"rendered":"James Dunbar (d. 1798)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Dunbar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>At King&#8217;s College, Aberdeen 1765-1795<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Dunbar&#8217;s lectures comprised three principal elements: the philosophy of mind, in which he was greatly influenced by <a title=\"Thomas Reid (1710-1796)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/03\/thomas-reid-1710-1796\/\">Thomas Reid<\/a>; ethics, which saw him draw on <a title=\"Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/francis-hutcheson-1694-1746\/\">Francis Hutcheson<\/a>&#8216;s idea of innate human sociability and a universal moral code based on natural benevolence; and political economy, a new subject at King&#8217;s and one influenced by <a title=\"Adam Smith (1723-1790)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/adam-smith-1723-1790\/\">Adam Smith<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Wealth of Nations<\/em> (1776).&#8217; [ODNB*]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications, Manuscript, and other Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>J Dunbar, \u2018Institutes of moral philosophy\u2019 [1789-1794], University of Aberdeen, Special Collections MS 3107\/5\/2\/6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*For references, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/category\/bibliography\/\">Site Bibliography<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Dunbar At King&#8217;s College, Aberdeen 1765-1795 Teaching &#8216;Dunbar&#8217;s lectures comprised three principal elements: the philosophy of mind, in which he was greatly influenced by Thomas Reid; ethics, which saw him draw on Francis Hutcheson&#8216;s idea of innate human sociability and a universal moral code based on natural benevolence; and political economy, a new subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,52],"tags":[59,56,63,76,70],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}