{"id":360,"date":"2013-09-13T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=360"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:14","slug":"james-balfour-of-pilrig-1705-1795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/13\/james-balfour-of-pilrig-1705-1795\/","title":{"rendered":"James Balfour of Pilrig (1705-1795)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Balfour<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Regius Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations, 1764-1779<\/li>\n<li>Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh, 1754-1764 but notably unsuccessful as a teacher (ODNB*); lectured on Pufendorf (Haakonssen, \u2018Natural\u2019 262*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Not known if he lectured as Regius Professor (Grant*); but his class was advertised in <em>The Edinburgh Advertiser<\/em>: \u2018UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH&#8230;III. LAW. The Law Classes will be opened on Tuesday the 19th of November, as follows: [ \u2026] The Law of Nature and Nations, Mr. Balfour.\u2019 [Vol. XXX, no 1532 (1 Sept 1778) 151 col. 2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications, Manuscripts and other Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>J Balfour, <em>A delineation of the nature and obligation of morality. With reflexions upon Mr Hume\u2019s book, intitled, An inquiry concerning the principles of morals<\/em> (Edinburgh [1753]; 2nd edn, Edinburgh, 1763)<\/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 Balfour Regius Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations, 1764-1779 Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh, 1754-1764 but notably unsuccessful as a teacher (ODNB*); lectured on Pufendorf (Haakonssen, \u2018Natural\u2019 262*) Teaching Not known if he lectured as Regius Professor (Grant*); but his class was advertised in The Edinburgh Advertiser: \u2018UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH&#8230;III. LAW. [&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":[11,52],"tags":[59,7,54,5],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}