Frases de Lord Monboddo

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo fue un juez, filósofo y lingüista escocés, figura preeminente de la Ilustración Escocesa y controvertida en el mundo intelectual británico del siglo XVIII. En 1767 fue nombrado juez de la Court of Session escocesa , y adoptó su título de Lord a partir del nombre de la hacienda de su padre, Monboddo House.

En la actualidad se lo conoce fundamentalmente por haber sido el fundador de la filología comparada . En su época, era mejor conocido por sus excentricidades y algunas controvertidas teorías relacionadas con la evolución del ser humano, habiendo sido uno de los primeros en postular que todos los simios y antropoides tienen un origen común. Ofreció para ello una explicación que anticipa el principio de la selección natural de Charles Darwin, y por ello, aunque nunca desarrolló su teoría buscando pruebas biológicas en el sentido moderno, es visto como un precursor directo del evolucionismo darwiniano , ,. Wikipedia

✵ 25. octubre 1714 – 26. mayo 1799

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“Though I think that man has from nature the capacity of living, either by prey, or upon the fruits of the earth; it appears to me, that by nature, and in his original state, he is a frugivorous animal, and that he only becomes an animal of prey by acquired habit.”

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James Burnett, Lord Monboddo

Of the Origin and Progress of Language (Edinburgh and London: J. Balfour and T. Cadell, 2nd ed., 1774), Vol. I, Book II, Ch. II, pp. 224-225 https://archive.org/stream/originandprogre01conggoog#page/n251/mode/2up.

“As to Duration, I still think it is absolutely impossible to conceive it without something that exists, and continues to exist, i. e. to endure. But how it should be a property of the thing existing is to me inconceivable. One thing… is absolutely certain, viz. that if eternal Duration be a property of the Supreme Being, Duration limited must be a property of inferior beings; so that we have here some common property.
I find you agree with Dr Clarke, in considering Time and Duration as the same. But this is an error that Dr Clarke has fallen into, by not being learned in the Ancient Metaphysics; for there he would have learned that time is only the measure of motion. It therefore could not exist, but with the material world; so that, if we could suppose nothing existing but the Supreme Mind, which is immoveable, there would in that case be Duration, or αίών,—as the Greek Philosophers call it—but not χρόνος, or Time. And the Doctor should not have rejected the common distinction, made by all Philosophers and Divines before him, betwixt Time and Eternity, without assigning better reasons than he has done.”

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James Burnett, Lord Monboddo

Letter to Richard Price (Sept. 15, 1780) as quoted by William Angus Knight, Lord Monboddo and Some of His Contemporaries https://books.google.com/books?id=GAEQAAAAYAAJ (1900).