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Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship and Society in Early Modern Scotland

By David Allan

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0748604383, 9780748604388
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
45 MB (47134372 bytes)
Pages
248\297
Time added
2020-05-29 09:05:43

Description

This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable dual influences of humanism and Calvinism forced a discussion about the essentially moral function of scholarship and learning to the very centre of intellectual debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn led to the growth of an "enlightened" community amongst the Scottish literati. As such, the text is a direct challenge to conventional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment as an unanticipated, short-lived explosion of ideas.

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