Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781474415019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Christopher J. Berry

Opis

This collection of essays by Christopher J. Berry spans several decades and multiple shifts across Scottish Enlightenment, Hume and Smith studies. It brings together Berry's classic essays some of which are difficult to find with 3 new pieces, which cumulatively constitute a distinct interpretation.

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Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: an Autobiographical Journey; Part One: Scottish Enlightenment; Introduction to Part One; 2. James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth Century Scotland; 3. James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language; 4."Climate" in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case; 5. Sociality and Socialisation; 6. Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment; 7. ‘But art itself is Natural to Man’: Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity; 8. Finding Space for Civil Society; Part Two: David Hume; Introduction to Part Two; 9. Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life; 10. Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume’s Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity; 11. Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Commerce; 12. Hume’s Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View; 13. Hume and Superfluous Value (or the problem with Epictetus’ Slippers); 14. Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism; 15. Hume on Happiness; Part Three: Adam Smith; Introduction to Part Three; 16. Adam Smith’s “Considerations” on Language; 17. Smith and Science; 18. Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity; 19. Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy; 20. Adam Smith’s Science of Human Nature; 21. Adam Smith on Liberty ‘in our present sense of the word’.