Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Broadie, Alexander

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139816540
• Artikelnr.: 52862042

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Alexander Broadie
1. The context of the Scottish Enlightenment Roger Emerson
2. Religion and rational theory M. A. Stewart
3. The human mind and its powers Alexander Broadie
4. Anthropology: the 'original' of human nature Aaron Garrett
5. Science in the Scottish Enlightenment Paul Wood
6. Scepticism and common sense Heiner Klemme
7. Moral sense and the foundations of morals Luigi Turco
8. The political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment Fania Oz-Salzberger
9. Economic theory Andrew Skinner
10. Natural jurisprudence and the theory of justice Knud Haakonssen
11. Legal theory John Cairns
12. Sociality and socialisation Christopher J. Berry
13. Historiography Murray Pittock
14. Art and aesthetic theory Alexander Broadie
15. The impact on Europe Michel Malherbe
16. The impact on America: Scottish philosophy and the American Founding Samuel Fleischacker
17. The nineteenth-century aftermath Gordon Graham.