Studies In The Philosophy Of The Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Michael Alexander Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198249667

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Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment by Michael Alexander Stewart Pdf

This is the first volume of the series Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy. Each volume of the series is organized around a particular theme, and is cross-disciplinary in its approach. In this collection of substantial new studies in Scottish Philosophy in the age of Hutcheson andHume, close attention is given to the study of context and the use of original historical sources as a key to philosophical interpretation. The collection includes revolutionary research on Hume's early reading in science and religion and its impact on his philosophy.

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780857904980

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The Scottish Enlightenment by Alexander Broadie Pdf

This authoritative anthology covers the many contributions to science, philosophy and economics made by the great minds of 18th century Scotland. Through the eighteenth and into the nineteenth centuries, Scotland saw an explosion of intellectual activity in the realms of philosophy, law, economics, politics, linguistics and the physical sciences. Great thinkers such as Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, Thomas Reid, James Hutton, and many others formulated many of the ideas that would become foundational to modernity. This anthology collects some of the most significant works by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers as well as lesser-known writings that have not been reprinted for centuries. Arranged thematically, it includes sections on Human Nature, Ethics, Aesthetics, Religion, Economics, Social Theory and Politics, Law, Historiography, Language and Science. Scottish philosopher and intellectual historian Alexander Broadie sheds light on the significance of these writings through his masterful introduction as well as commentary throughout. “A major contribution to our literature and intellectual resources and I do not think it could be better done . . . For many people this book will become a companion for years or even a lifetime.” —Scotsman, UK

Author : David B. Wilson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780271035253

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Seeking Nature's Logic by David B. Wilson Pdf

"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Glendinning Miles Glendinning
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 9781474468503

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History of Scottish Architecture by Glendinning Miles Glendinning Pdf

At last - here is a single volume authoritative history of Scottish architecture. This compact yet comprehensive account combines factual description of the vast and fertile range of visual forms and key architects in each period with a wide-ranging analysis of their social, ideological and historical context. As Scotland has often been closely involved with new trends in western architecture, this book highlights the interaction of Scottish developments with broader European and international movements. From the beginnings of the Renaissance in the 15th century right up to the 1990s ,this much-needed survey covers the entire post-medieval story in one volume.

Author : Paul Wood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1580460658

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The Scottish Enlightenment by Paul Wood Pdf

Despite the recent surge of scholarship on the Scottish Enlightenment, no single volume has attempted to take stock of the field since the 1980s. The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reinterpretation brings together essays by an international group of experts who are all well known for their publications on eighteenth-century Scotland. Individually, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from medicine to moral philosophy, and each chapter expands our knowledge of the Enlightenment in Scotland by providing new information or a fresh look at significant questions which have aroused controversy in the past. Readers will find the latest research on the culture of print in the Scottish Enlightenment; the medical world of eighteenth-century Scotland; the relations between the Scottish literati and Enlightened savants in England and Europe; geography and the rise of public science in Scotland; the philosophical systemes of Francis Hutcheson, George Campbell, and Thomas Reid; the manuscripts of David Hume; and the historical works of Dugald Stewart. In their different ways, the essays additionally explore some of the most important historiographical issues associated with the study of the Scottish Enlightenment. Readers are introduced to debates over the very definition of the term 'the Scottish Enlightenment'; the coherence of the 'school' of Scottish philosophy; the Scottish Enlightenment and the making of Scottish identity; the roles of science, medicine, moral philosophy, and political economy in enlightened culture; and the cosmopolitan character of the Enlightenment. This volume thus enriches our picture not only of the Scottish Enlightenment, but of the Enlightenment in general.

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : UCAL:B4439096

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Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment by Peter Jones Pdf

Author : Christopher J. Berry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9781474415026

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Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment by Christopher J. Berry Pdf

Upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars working specifically on the Scottish Enlightenment and early modern political and economic thought more generally.

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748628643

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History of Scottish Philosophy by Alexander Broadie Pdf

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2009. Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year 2009 This is the first-ever account of the full 700-year-old Scottish philosophical tradition. The book focuses on a number of philosophers in the period from the later-13th century until the mid-20th and attends especially to some brilliantly original texts. The book also indicates ways in which philosophy has been intimately related to other aspects of Scotland's culture. Among the greatest philosophers that Scotland has produced are John Duns Scotus, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith and Thomas Reid. But there were many other fine, even brilliant philosophers who are less highly regarded, if they are noticed at all, such as John Mair, George Lokert, Frederick Ferrier, Andrew Seth, Norman Kemp Smith and John Macmurray. All these thinkers and many others are discussed in these pages. This clearly written and approachable book gives us a strong sense of the Scottish philosophical tradition.

Author : Aaron Garrett,James A. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191502750

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Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I by Aaron Garrett,James A. Harris Pdf

A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual fertility known as the Scottish Enlightenment, through the Victorian age and beyond, when it continued to exercise powerful intellectual influence at home and abroad. The books aim to be historically informative, while at the same time serving to renew philosophical interest in the problems with which the Scottish philosophers grappled, and in the solutions they proposed. This new history of Scottish philosophy will include two volumes that focus on the Scottish Enlightenment. In this volume a team of leading experts explore the ideas, intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Reid, and many other thinkers, frame old issues in fresh ways, and introduce new topics and questions into debates about the philosophy of this remarkable period. The contributors explore the distinctively Scottish context of this philosophical flourishing, and juxtapose the work of canonical philosophers with contemporaries now very seldom read. The outcome is a broadening-out, and a filling-in of the detail, of the picture of the philosophical scene of Scotland in the eighteenth century. General Editor: Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary

Author : R.H. Campbell
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788854221

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The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment by R.H. Campbell Pdf

In the first part of the volume are collected six essays which comment on mainly institutional matters: the merchant community, the universities and the study of science and medicine. Two important themes emerge from these studies; firstly the significant role played by remarkable and learned individuals such as Andrew Melville and George Drummond in the Enlightenment. Secondly, the beginnings of interest in the political, scientific and economic ideas that were to shape Scotland's golden age are traced to the late seventeenth century. These essays then collectively and firmly reject Trevor-Roper's thesis that 'at the end of the seventeenth century, Scotland was a by-word for irredeemable poverty, social backwardness, political faction. The universities were the unreformed seminaries of a fanatical clergy.' The second part of the volume has a narrower focus, and the essays presented here show how developments in science and philosophy were used to question theological dogma, in particular how the claims of reason were maintained as a challenge to a theology of revelation. The collection ends with a series of essays exploring the definition and defence of the principles of natural law by means of appeal to reason, sentiment and experience. This is a stimulating and persuasive collection of essays on an important and attractive era in Scotland's cultural history.

Author : Alexander Broadie,Craig Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108420709

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The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment by Alexander Broadie,Craig Smith Pdf

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of achievements of the Scottish thinkers who so profoundly influenced western culture.

Author : Christopher J. Berry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748645336

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Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment by Christopher J. Berry Pdf

The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporary debates and tensions between Enlightenment thinkers that this idea raised. The book analyses the full range of literature on the subject, from key works like Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', David Hume's 'Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects' and Adam Ferguson's 'Essay on the History of Civil Society' to lesser-known works such as Robert Wallace's 'Dissertation on Numbers of Mankind'.

Author : Elizabeth Robinson,Chris W. Surprenant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315463407

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Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment by Elizabeth Robinson,Chris W. Surprenant Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note on Abbreviations and References -- Preface -- Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment: An Introduction -- 1 Hutcheson on the Unity of Virtue and Right -- 2 Hutcheson and Kant: Moral Sense and Moral Feeling -- 3 Hutcheson's and Kant's Critique of Sympathy -- 4 Kant and Hutcheson on Aesthetics and Teleology -- 5 Outer Sense, Inner Sense, and Feeling: Hutcheson and Kant on Aesthetic Pleasure -- 6 Taste, Morality, and Common Sense: Kant and the Scots -- 7 Kant and Hume on Feelings in Moral Philosophy -- 8 Hume's Principle and Kant's Pure Rational System of Religion: Grace, Providence, and the Highest Good -- 9 A Writer More Excellent than Cicero: Hume's Influence on Kant's Anthropology -- 10 Kant and Hume on Marriage -- 11 Hume and Kant on Imagination: Thematic and Methodological Differences -- 12 Hume and Kant on Space, Divisibility, and Antinomical Conflict -- 13 Hume and Kant on Identity and Substance -- 14 An Alternative to Heteronomy and Anarchy: Kant's Reformulation of the Social Contract -- 15 Kant, Smith, and the Place of Virtue in Political and Economic Organization -- 16 Adam Smith's Kantian Phenomenology of Moral Motivation -- 17 Kant and Smith on Imagination, Reason, and Personhood -- 18 Seeing a Flower in the Garden: Common Sense, Transcendental Idealism -- 19 Kant's Heuristic Methods: Feeling and Common Sense in Orientation and Taste -- List of Contributors -- Index

Author : George E. Davie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134546596

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The Scotch Metaphysics by George E. Davie Pdf

Focusing on the works of Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Sir William Hamilton, Thomas Brown and James Frederick Ferrier, this book offers a definitive account of an important philosophical movement, and represents a ground-breaking contribution to scholarship in the area. Essential reading for philosophers or anyone with an interest in the history of philosophical thought.

Author : Elizabeth Robinson,Chris W. Surprenant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315463391

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Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment by Elizabeth Robinson,Chris W. Surprenant Pdf

Most academic philosophers and intellectual historians are familiar with the major historical figures and intellectual movements coming out of Scotland in the 18th Century. These scholars are also familiar with the works of Immanuel Kant and his influence on Western thought. But with the exception of discussion examining David Hume’s influence on Kant’s epistemology, metaphysics, and moral theory, little attention has been paid to the influence of the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy. This volume aims to fill this perceived gap in the literature and provide a starting point for future discussions looking at the influence of Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy.