The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781108430784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 394 str.

Alexander Broadie; Craig Smith

Opis

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of achievements of the Scottish thinkers who so profoundly influenced western culture.

Spis treści

Introduction Alexander Broadie; 1. Several contexts of the Scottish Enlightenment Roger L. Emerson and Mark G. Spencer; 2. Religion and rational theology M. A. Stewart; 3. The human mind and its powers Jacqueline Taylor; 4. Anthropology: the 'original' of human nature Aaron Garrett; 5. Science in the Scottish Enlightenment Paul Wood; 6. Scepticism and common sense Heiner F. Klemme; 7. Moral sense theories and other sentimentalist accounts of the foundations of morals Christel Fricke; 8. The political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment Fania Oz-Salzberger; 9. Political economy Craig Smith; 10. Natural jurisprudence and the theory of justice Knud Haakonssen; 11. Legal theory John W. Cairns; 12. Sociality and socialisation Christopher J. Berry; 13. Historiography Murray G. H. Pittock; 14. Art and aesthetic theory Catherine Labio; 15. Literature and sentimentalism Deidre Dawson; 16. The impact on America: Scottish philosophy and the American founding Samuel Fleischacker; 17. The nineteenth-century aftermath Gordon Graham; Select bibliography, Index.