The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Roy Hutcheson Campbell
Publisher: Edinburgh : J. Donald
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roy Hutcheson Campbell
Publisher: Edinburgh : J. Donald
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David B. Wilson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0271035250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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: J. Rendall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1978-06-17
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1349041408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roy Hutchinson Campbell
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781904607144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This important collection of essays offers new perspectives on the development and character of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Author: Alexander Broadie
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0857904981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-06-18
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0300163746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIVEnlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism./div
Author: Norbert Waszek
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 402
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The four leading members of the Scottish Enlightenment (Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson) not only agreed in regarding human life as essentially social life: they even shared the conviction that man's «social» (defined as altruistic or benevolent) propensities would prevail in the operation of society. Throughout their accounts of man, discussed in part one, a distinct tone of optimism is perceptible. The second part attempts to explain the predominance of this optimism among the Scottish intellectuals of the Enlightenment period. A full exposition of eighteenth-century Scottish history shows the philosophers' optimism to be in line with the climate of opinion belonging to an age of improvement.
Author: Iain McDaniel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-03-18
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0674075285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe’s growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression—a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson’s skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions.
Author: Michael Alexander Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780198249665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.