Aberdeen and the Enlightenment
Author : Jennifer J. Carter
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Jennifer J. Carter
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Paul B. Wood
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521003230
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.
Author : Peter John Diamond
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857904981
The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas – men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.
Author : Philosophical Society of Aberdeen
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Charles Bradford Bow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0198783906
Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.
Author : Michael Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0674968654
During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Scotland and England produced such well-known figures as David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Locke. Ireland’s contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received much less attention. Offering a corrective to the view that Ireland was intellectually stagnant during this period, The Irish Enlightenment considers a range of artists, writers, and philosophers who were full participants in the pan-European experiment that forged the modern world. Michael Brown explores the ideas and innovations percolating in political pamphlets, economic and religious tracts, and literary works. John Toland, Francis Hutcheson, Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, and other luminaries, he shows, participated in a lively debate about the capacity of humans to create a just society. In a nation recovering from confessional warfare, religious questions loomed large. How should the state be organized to allow contending Christian communities to worship freely? Was the public confession of faith compatible with civil society? In a society shaped by opposing religious beliefs, who is enlightened and who is intolerant? The Irish Enlightenment opened up the possibility of a tolerant society, but it was short-lived. Divisions concerning methodological commitments to empiricism and rationalism resulted in an increasingly antagonistic conflict over questions of religious inclusion. This fracturing of the Irish Enlightenment eventually destroyed the possibility of civilized, rational discussion of confessional differences. By the end of the eighteenth century, Ireland again entered a dark period of civil unrest whose effects were still evident in the late twentieth century.
Author : David B. Wilson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 0271035250
"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 : Paul Dukes
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN :