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See also:MONBODDO, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:BURNETT, See also:LORD (1714-1799) , Scottish See also:judge and anthropologist, was See also:born in 1714 at Monboddo in See also:Kincardineshire. Ile studied at See also:Aberdeen, and, after passing his See also:law See also:examinations in See also:Edinburgh, he quickly took a leading position at the Scottish See also:bar, being made a Lord of Session in 1767 with the See also:title of Lord Monboddo. Many of his eccentricities, both of conduct and See also:opinion, appear less remarkable to us than they did to his contemporaries; moreover, he seems to have heightened the impression of them by his humorous sallies in their See also:defence. He may have had other reasons than the practice of the ancients for dining See also:late and performing his journeys on horseback instead of in a See also:carriage. He is remembered more particularly for his writings on human origins. In his Antient See also:Metaphysics (1779–1799), Monboddo conceived See also:man as gradually elevating himself from an See also:animal See also:condition, in which his mind is immersed in See also:matter, to a See also:state in which mind acts independently of See also:body. In his equally voluminous See also:work, The Origin and Progress of See also:Language (1773), he brought man under the same See also:species as the orang-outang. He traced the See also:gradual See also:elevation of man to the social state, which he conceived as a natural See also:process determined by " the necessities of human See also:life." He looked on language (which is not " natural " to man in the sense of being necessary to his self-preservation) as a consequence of his social state. His views about the origin of society and language and the faculties by which man is distinguished from the brutes have many curious points of contact with Darwinism and neo-Kantianism. His See also:idea of studying man as one of the animals, and of See also:collecting facts about See also:savage tribes to throw See also:light on the problems of See also:civilization, bring him into contact with the one, and his intimate knowledge of See also:Greek See also:philosophy with the other. In both respects Monboddo was far in advance of his neighbours. His studied See also:abstinence from See also:fine See also:writing—from " the rhetorical and poetical See also:style fashionable among writers of the See also:present See also:day "—on such subjects as he handled confirmed the idea of his contemporaries that he was only an See also:eccentric
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concocter of supremely absurd paradoxes. He died on the 26th of May 1799.
See also:Boswell's Life of See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson gives an See also:account of the lexicographer's visit to Burnett at Monboddo, and is full of references to the natural contemporary view of a man who thought that the human See also:race could be descended from monkeys.
End of Article: MONBODDO, JAMES BURNETT, LORD (1714-1799)
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