Scottish-born John Witherspoon (1723-1794) was educated at Edinburgh University and became a prominent minister in the Church of Scotland. In 1768 he was persuaded to cross the Atlantic to become sixth president and leading professor of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). From then on he played an important part in American public life, publishing many sermons and writings in support of the Revolutionary cause and signing the Declaration of Independence. He was also among the main importers of Scottish realist philosophy into the new world, where it would dominate intellectual life through the 19th century. Witherspoon's four-volume "Works" contains the lectures from his famous course on moral philosophy that he gave to each senior class, as well as his lectures on eloquence and essays on various social and political topics. Also included are important selections from his correspondence, speeches to Congress, and 47 sermons. The original books are exceedingly rare and until now most scholars have had access to them only via microfilm. This facsimile of the revised and corrected second edition (1802) with a substantial new introduction by L.
Gordon Tait should be welcomed by a wide variety of historians of American thought.
- ISBN10 1345655126
- ISBN13 9781345655124
- Publish Date 29 October 2015 (first published 1 October 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Arkose Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 604
- Language English