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Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Englightenment / Christopher J. Berry.
LIBRA B1402.E55 B47 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berry, Christopher J., author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh studies in Scottish philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Hume, David.
- Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
- Smith, Adam.
- Enlightenment--Scotland.
- Enlightenment.
- Scotland.
- Philosophy, Scottish--18th century.
- Philosophy, Scottish.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 452 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- 1 The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: An Autobiographical Journey p. 1
- Part I The Scottish Enlightenment
- 2 James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth-Century Scotland p. 32
- 3 James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language p. 48
- 4 'Climate' in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case p. 60
- 5 Sociality and Socialisation p. 75
- 6 Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment p. 88
- 7 'But Art itself is Natural to Man': Adam Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity p. 109
- 8 Finding Space for Civil Society in the Scottish Enlightenment p. 124
- Part II David Hume
- 9 Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life p. 146
- 10 Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume's Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity p. 163
- 11 Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Humanity p. 184
- 12 Hume's Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View p. 208
- 13 Hume and Superfluous Value (or the Problem with Epictetus' Slippers) p. 226
- 14 Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism p. 247
- 15 Hume on Happiness p. 264
- Part III Adam Smith
- 16 Adam Smith's 'Considerations' on Language p. 290
- 17 Smith and Science p. 303
- 18 Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity p. 326
- 19 Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy p. 347
- 20 Adam Smith's 'Science of Human Nature' p. 364
- 21 Adam Smith on Liberty 'in our present sense of the word' p. 385.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-443) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1474415016
- 9781474415019
- OCLC:
- 1012713657
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