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en-wikipedia-org-9120		James Beattie (poet) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2245	458	50	In 1760, he was, to his surprise, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy at Marischal College (later part of Aberdeen University) as a result of the influence exerted by his close friend, Robert Arbuthnot of Haddo.[2] In the following year he published a volume of poems, The Judgment of Paris (1765), which attracted attention. Beattie was prominent in arguing against the institution of slavery,[3] notably in his Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770), and in Elements of Moral Science (1790–93), where he used the case of Dido Belle to argue the mental capacity of black people.[4] His philosophical work have generally been assessed very negatively in the time since his death, with Immanuel Kant stating that his misunderstanding of most of David Hume's work was "positively painful".[10] Philosopher John Immerwahr states that among contemporary scholars, Beattie is regarded as "a superficial thinker who is primarily known because he was the source for some of Kant's knowledge of Hume".[10]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9120.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9120.txt