Robert Burns and the Philosophers

ISBN-13: 9780367787103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 276 str.

J. Walter McGinty

Opis

This volume expounds the influence of Robert Burns’s reading of Philosophy

on his life and work, supplementing this with his personal encounters

with those philosophers he met.

Spis treści

Contents

　

　

Acknowledgements

Introduction

　

Chapter 1 Homespun philosophy

Chapter 2 John Locke I - Opening up other worlds

Chapter 3 Adam Smith I - Theory of Moral Sentiments

Chapter 4 Adam Smith II – The Wealth of Nations

Chapter 5 Francis Hutcheson – A shared outlook

Chapter 6 Thomas Reid – Common Sense

Chapter 7 Dugald Stewart – The local philosopher

Chapter 8 Archibald Alison and William Greenfield –A confidence achieved

Appendix List of Authors or texts quoted or alluded to by William Greenfield in his Essays on the sources of the pleasures received from literary

composition, that were known to Robert Burns.

References and Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

J. Walter McGinty received his PhD at the University of Strathclyde on

‘Literary, Philosophical and Theological Influences on Robert Burns’.

Dr McGinty is an ordained Minister, having trained for the Ministry of

the Church of Scotland at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College

Glasgow. Other publications are Robert Burns and Religion, (Ashgate);

and Robert Burns the Book Lover: From Reader to Writer, (Humming

Earth.) The present volume completes the trilogy of books that have

examined the influence of the reading of Robert Burns. McGinty has

also written a biography, ‘An Animated Son of Liberty’: A Life of John

Witherspoon, (Arena) and has published papers on ‘John Goldie and

Robert Burns’ and ‘Milton’s Satan and Burns’s Auld Nick’ in Studies in

Scottish Literature Vols XXIX and XXXIII.