In this new, dual-language edition, Hutcheson's Latin Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria is presented on facing pages with its English translation, A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy , together with all the relevant alterations of the 1745 edition relating to the 1742 edition of the Institutio , including all the omissions and additions by the translator in the Short Introduction .
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of moral philosophy in 1729.
Luigi Turco is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna.