The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment
Author : Roy Hutcheson Campbell
Publisher : Edinburgh : J. Donald
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Roy Hutcheson Campbell
Publisher : Edinburgh : J. Donald
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : J. Rendall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1978-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1349041408
Author : Jennifer J. Carter
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Anand C. Chitnis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1000435776
Originally published in 1976, this book discusses the relationship of the age of intellectual enlightenment in Scotland to the age of economic improvement and analyses the Scottish Enlightenment from a more sociological point of view. It describes the intense period of high intellectual endeavour and activity that took place in the resorts of the cultural social Scottish elite in 18th and early 19th Century Scotland. It discusses the crucial place of lawyers in 18th Century Scottish society and examines the intellectual features of the Scottish university system, charting the rise of the societies, clubs and other institutions such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and The Edinburgh Review.
Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781841586403
The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the greatest intellectual and cultural movements that the world has ever seen. Its legacy in philosophy, history, science, music, art, architecture, economics, and many other disciplines cannot be overstated. The New Town of Edinburgh would be inconceivable without the doctrines of Enlightenment, equally so would the writings of Karl Marx or the US Constitution. To this day, the doctrines of Enlightenment are still quoted and misquoted. There can be few countries that have produced such a galaxy of talent in so small a compass. David Hume and Adam Smith merely stand as two of the best known.Yet this is the first book for the general reader to consider in its totality the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history, not simply the thoughts, ideas, and people who lived then, but also the creations that were animated by that thought. This is a book not simply about ideas but also about those ideas made flesh and about the new traditions thus created that still animate and inspire the world and the Scotland of today.
Author : Peter John Diamond
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
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Author : Michael Alexander Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198249665
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 : Ronnie Young
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 161148801X
This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.
Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1473006538
This 5-hour free course explored scientific developments and leading figures in Scotland in the 18th century with regard to the Enlightenment period.
Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0857904981
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