Scottish philosophy in the eighteenth century: Volume I: Morals, Politics, Art, Religion

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'A History of Scottish Philosophy' is a series of collaborative studies, each volume being devoted to a specific period. This volume focuses on the intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, and Reid; moral and political philosophy, the sciences of man, and religion. The chapters explore the distinctively Scottish context of the Scottish Enlightenment, and juxtapose the work of canonical philosophers with contemporaries now very seldom read.  Read more... Introduction 1. The World in which the Scottish Enlightenment Took Shape 2. Francis Hutcheson's Philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment: Reception, Reputation, and Legacy 3. Moral Philosophy: Practical and Speculative 4. Beauty, Taste, Rhetoric, and Language 5. Hume in and out of Scottish Context 6. Religion and Philosophy 7. Adam Smith: History and Impartiality 8. The Rise of the Human Sciences 9. Barbarism and Republicanism 10. Revolution 11. Thomas Reid and the Common Sense School 12. Postscript: On Writing the History of Scottish Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment