Education For Life : Correspondence and Writings on Religion and Practical Philosophy / George Turnbull ; edited and with an introduction by M.A. Stewart and Paul Wood ; Latin texts translated by Michael Silverthorne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turnbull, George, 1698-1748.

Contributor:

Stewart, M. A. (Michael Alexander), 1937- editor.

Series:

Natural law and enlightenment classics

Philosophical works and correspondence of George Turnbull

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2014

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turnbull, George, 1698-1748--Correspondence.

Turnbull, George.

Philosophical theology.

Enlightenment--Scotland.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 475 pages)

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

George Turnbull belongs with a group of early Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, who found their native Calvinism too repressive. They sought to relocate religion within a context of reason and science and to establish a tolerant and humane ethic upon values rooted in classical ideals. In a distinctive voice, Turnbull presented natural-law theory "scientifically," harnessed the arts to promote moral and civil virtue, and extolled reason as the foundation of liberty. The works in this volume exhibit the close interrelations between these concerns and show him as a paradigmatic "Enlightenment" figure. This extremely rare material includes two Aberdeen graduation theses, three tracts on religion, various writings on education and art, and, for the first time in print, the correspondence of Turnbull. George Turnbull (1698-1748) was born in Scotland and ordained into the Church of England in 1739. A key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, he taught moral philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, where one of his pupils was Thomas Reid, who became the main representative of the Scottish Common Sense philosophy. M. A. Stewart is Honorary Research Professor in the History of Philosophy at the Universities of Lancaster and Aberdeen. Paul Wood is Professor of History at the University of Victoria.

Contents:

Introduction / Christine Dunn Henderson

Part I. Tocqueville as voyager

Hidden from view : Tocqueville's secrets / Eduardo Nolla

Tocqueville's voyages : to and from America? / S.J.D. Green

Democratic dangers, democratic remedies, and the democratic character / James T. Schleifer

Tocqueville's journey into America / Jeremy Jennings

Alexis de Tocqueville and the two-founding thesis / James W. Ceaser

Tocqueville's "new political science" / Catherine H. Zuckert

Democratic grandeur : how Tocqueville constructed his new moral science in America / Alan S. Kahan

Intimations of philosophy in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / Harvey C. Mansfield

An undertow of race prejudice in the current of democratic transformation : Tocqueville on the "three races" of North America / Barbara Allen

Tocqueville's reflections on a democratic paradox / Jean-Louis Benoît

Out of Africa : Tocqueville's imperial voyages / Cheryl B. Welch

Part II. Tocquevillian voyages

Tocqueville's voyage of discovery from Sicily to America / Filippo Sabetti

Tocqueville, Argentina, and the search for a point of departure / Enrique Aguilar

Tocqueville and Eastern Europe / Aurelian Craiutu

Tocqueville and "Democracy in Japan" / Reiji Matsumoto.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (431-448) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61487-910-9

OCLC:

903760772