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WILLIAM STEWART (c. 1480-c. 1550)

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WILLIAM See also:STEWART (c. 1480-c. 1550)  , Scottish poet and translator, descendant of one of the illegitimate sons of See also:Alexander See also:Stewart, See also:earl of See also:Buchan, the " See also:Wolf of See also:Badenoch," was a member of the university of St See also:Andrews . He was in orders, and a hanger-on at the See also:court of See also:James V . The last entry of the See also:payment of a See also:pension of £40 appears in the accounts of 1541 . He was known as a poet in his own See also:day: See also:Lyndsay and See also:Rolland refer to him . Portions of his See also:minor See also:verse are preserved in the See also:Bannatyne and See also:Maitland See also:Folio See also:MSS . His See also:chief See also:work is a metrical See also:translation of See also:Hector See also:Boece's See also:History, in obedience to the command of James V., who entrusted See also:Bellenden with its translation into Scots See also:prose . Stewart's version remained in MS. till 1858, when it was edited by W . Turnbull for the " Rolls See also:Series (3 vols.) . The MS. is now in the library of the university of See also:Cambridge . Ethical, and See also:Political See also:Philosophy since the Revival of Letters." In 1822 he was struck with See also:paralysis, but recovered a See also:fair degree of See also:health, sufficient to enable him to resume his studies . In 1827 he published the third See also:volume of the Elements, and in 1828, a few See also:weeks before his See also:death, The Philosophy of the Active and Moral See also:Powers . He died in See also:Edinburgh on the 11th of See also:June 1828 .

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monument to his memory was erected on Calton See also:Hill . Stewart's philosophical views are mainly the See also:reproduction of his See also:master See also:Reid (for his ethical views see See also:ETHICS) . He upheld Reid's psychological method and expounded the " See also:common-sense" See also:doctrine, which was attacked by the two See also:Mills . Unconsciously, however, he See also:fell away from the pure Scottish tradition and made concessions both to moderate See also:empiricism and to the See also:French ideologists (Laromiguiere, See also:Cabanis and Destutt de See also:Tracy) . It is important to See also:notice the See also:energy of his See also:declaration against the See also:argument of See also:ontology, and also against See also:Condillac's See also:sensationalism . See also:Kant, he confessed, he could not understand . Perhaps his most valuable and See also:original work is his theory of See also:taste in the Philosophical Essays . But his reputation rests rather on his inspiring eloquence and the beauty of his See also:style than on original work . Stewart's See also:works were edited in 11 vols . (1854—1858) by See also:Sir See also:William See also:Hamilton and completed with a memoir by See also:John See also:Veitch . See also:Matthew Stewart (his eldest son) wrote a See also:life in See also:Annual See also:Biography and Obituary (1829), republished privately in 1838 . For his philosophy see McCosh, Scottish Philosophy (1875), pp .

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Bain, See also:Mental See also:Science, pp . 208, 313 and app . 29, 65, 88, 89; Moral Science, pp . 639 seq.; Sir L . See also:Stephen, See also:English Thought in the XVIIIth See also:Century .

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