Aberdeen and the Enlightenment
Author : Jennifer J. Carter
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Jennifer J. Carter
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Paul B. Wood
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Charles Bradford Bow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 38,43 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 : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,86 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 : J. Rendall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 1978-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1349041408
Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 28,18 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 : 41,21 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
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Author : Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192537598
Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities—Episcopalians and Catholics—in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.
Author : Roy Hutcheson Campbell
Publisher : Edinburgh : J. Donald
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Michael Alexander Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,63 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.