{"id":158,"date":"2013-09-27T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=158"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:14","slug":"alexander-gerard-1728-1795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/alexander-gerard-1728-1795\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Gerard (1728-1795)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Gerard<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Studied with <a title=\"David Fordyce (bap. 1711, d. 1751)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/david-fordyce-bap-1711-d-1751\/\">David Fordyce<\/a><\/li>\n<li>First professor of moral philosophy and logic at Aberdeen, 1753-1760<\/li>\n<li>Professor of divinity at Marischal (1760-1771) then King&#8217;s College (from 1771), Aberdeen<\/li>\n<li>Sometime college librarian at Marischal, c. 1768<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Under the heading of speculative jurisprudence, he focussed on the cluster of concepts connected with the notion of natural law, and claimed that most of these concepts were derived from the immediate perceptions of moral sense&#8217;. (Wood, <em>Aberdeen Enlightenment<\/em> 114*)<\/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 Gerard Studied with David Fordyce First professor of moral philosophy and logic at Aberdeen, 1753-1760 Professor of divinity at Marischal (1760-1771) then King&#8217;s College (from 1771), Aberdeen Sometime college librarian at Marischal, c. 1768 Teaching &#8216;Under the heading of speculative jurisprudence, he focussed on the cluster of concepts connected with the notion of natural [&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":[24,52],"tags":[59,56,55],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}