Scottish philosophy in the eighteenth century: Volume I: Morals, Politics, Art, Religion

✍ Scribed by Garrett, Aaron; Harris, James Anthony

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 493
Series: History of Scottish philosophy
Edition: First edition.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

'A History of Scottish Philosophy' is a series of collaborative studies, each volume being devoted to a specific period. This volume focuses on the intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, and Reid; moral and political philosophy, the sciences of man, and religion. The chapters explore the distinctively Scottish context of the Scottish Enlightenment, and juxtapose the work of canonical Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The World in which the Scottish Enlightenment Took Shape
2. Francis Hutcheson's Philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment: Reception, Reputation, and Legacy
3. Moral Philosophy: Practical and Speculative
4. Beauty, Taste, Rhetoric, and Language
5. Hume in and out of Scottish Context
6. Religion and Philosophy
7. Adam Smith: History and Impartiality
8. The Rise of the Human Sciences
9. Barbarism and Republicanism
10. Revolution
11. Thomas Reid and the Common Sense School
12. Postscript: On Writing the History of Scottish Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment

✦ Subjects

Philosophy, Scottish -- 18th century;Philosophy, Scottish

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