MACKINTOSH, JAMES

JAMES MACKINTOSH. – English political figure and thinker, born in Aldourie (Scotland) on 24 Sept. 1765, died in London on 3 May 1832.

MALMESBURY (v.) SMITH, ADAM (v.) and a follower of Hartley’s doctrine of associationism (v.), he applied it specifically to ethics in the work A general view of the progress of ethical philosophy, first published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (London 1830) and later revised (4th ed., 1872) and translated into French (1834). Mackintosh defended the ideas of liberty emanating from France in the work Vindiciae Gallicae, or defence of the French Revolution (London 1791), written in opposition to Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution. His History of the Revolution in England (1688) appeared posthumously (London 1834).

BIBL.: V. the Notice of the life, writings and speeches, prefixed to History of Revol., R. I. Mackintosh, Biography, 2 vols., London 1836. Michele Federico Sciacca

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(courtesy of the Grey Nuns of Montreal). MACKENZIE, apostolic vicariate of – Grotto of the Virgin of Lourdes (70th latitude) at Paulatuk. Voyage of H.E. G. Breynat, apostolic vicar, and of Sister Anna Lusignan, Provincial Superior of the Grey Nuns of Montreal (1939).
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