The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment

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2nd edition
Edited by Alexander Broadie, University of Glasgow, Craig Smith, University of Glasgow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: October 2019
Print publication year: 2019
Online ISBN: 9781108355063
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355063

Subjects: History of Philosophy, Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Collection: The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion

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Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355063
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The second edition of this Companion presents a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century phenomenon that has had a profound influence on Western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson and other Scottish thinkers. Their subjects range across philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science, and law and the arts, and in addition, they relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. This volume contains five entirely new chapters on morality, the human mind, aesthetics, sentimentalism and political economy, and eleven other chapters have been significantly revised and updated. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.

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The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment
pp i-i

Series page - Series page
pp ii-ii

The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xi

Chronology of Events Relating to the Scottish Enlightenment
pp xii-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-8

1 - Several Contexts of the Scottish Enlightenment
pp 9-32

2 - Religion and Rational Theology
pp 33-59

3 - The Human Mind and Its Powers
pp 60-73

4 - Anthropology
pp 74-89

5 - Science in the Scottish Enlightenment
pp 90-112

6 - Scepticism and Common Sense
pp 113-130

7 - Moral Sense Theories and Other Sentimentalist Accounts of the Foundations of Morals
pp 131-150

8 - The Political Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment
pp 151-176

9 - Political Economy
pp 177-194

10 - Natural Jurisprudence and the Theory of Justice
pp 195-212

11 - Legal Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment
pp 213-233

12 - Sociality and Socialisation
pp 234-247

13 - Historiography
pp 248-270

14 - Art and Aesthetic Theory
pp 271-288

15 - Literature and Sentimentalism
pp 289-312

16 - The Impact on America
pp 313-333

17 - The Nineteenth-Century Aftermath
pp 334-347

Select Bibliography
pp 348-356

Index
pp 357-375

Series page - Series page
pp 376-378

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