This Liberty Fund publication of PhilosophiaeMoralis Institutio Compendiaria is a paralleledition of the English and Latin versions of a bookdesigned by Hutcheson for use in the classroom. GeneralEditor Knud Haakonssen remarks that HutchesonsInstitutio was written as a textbook for universitystudents and it therefore covers a curriculum which hasan institutional background in his own university,Glasgow. This was a curriculum crucially influenced byHutchesons predecessor Gershom Carmichael, and at itscenter was modern natural jurisprudence as systematizedby Grotius, Pufendorf, and others. . . . The Institutio isthe first major [published] attempt by Hutcheson to dealwith natural law on his own terms. . . . It thereforeencapsulates the axis of natural law and ScottishEnlightenment ideas, which so many other thinkers,including Adam Smith, worked with in their differentways. It is of great significance that this work issued fromthe class in which Smith sat as a student.Editor Luigi Turco comments that the aim of the textwas twofold: on one hand, to put forward an optimisticview of God, human nature, and the harmony of theuniverse; on the other hand, to provide students with theknowledge of natural and civil law required by theuniversity curriculum. Hutcheson starts from PufendorfsDe officio hominis et civis (itself an abridgment of hisDe jure naturae et gentium)the text that was mostwidely read within Protestant universitiesbut modifiesits moral foundations.Francis Hutcheson was a crucial link between the continental European natural law tradition and the emerging Scottish Enlightenment. Hence, he is a pivotal figure in the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series. A contemporary of Lord Kames and George Turnbull, an acquaintance of David Hume, and the teacher of Adam Smith, Hutcheson was arguably the leading figure in making Scotland distinctive within the general European Enlightenment.Luigi Turco is Professor of Philosophy at the University ofBologna.Knud Haakonssen is Professor ofIntellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University ofSussex, England.