This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland. It shows that there was considerable continuity of thought between Witherspoon s Scottish ministry and the second half of... Lees meer.

Originally published in 1986 this book creates a vivid portrait of the interaction of Scottish ideas and early Victorian English society over 50 years illuminated by detail and substantial in its range. The book delineates certain ideas of the so-called Scottish Enlig... Lees meer.

A clear portrait of an enlightened Steuart emerges from this book opening up an alternative approach to many key developments in economic theory. This book brings together a diverse international team of experts to overturn the advocate of mercantilism myth and explo... Lees meer.

Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with t... Lees meer.

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The eighteenth century is often described as the age of reason. This book argues that it should also be considered the age of the passions. Eighteenth-century writers recognised the passions as the springs of human life and actions. They began to explore self-interest... Lees meer.

Enlightenment s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith s famous defense of free trade. Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers... Lees meer.

The Scottish Enlightenment is often portrayed as elitist and Edinburgh based with no universally agreed beginning or end. Additionally the Philosophers and scholars the great Scottish Enlightenment figures sometimes obscure significant contributions from other disci... Lees meer.

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 Fe... Lees meer.

Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied. they could be convivial sporting or scholarly or they could be a significant and dynamic social force committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to soc... Lees meer.

By exploring the writings of Mandeville Hume and Smith this book offers a critique of Hayek s theory of cultural evolution and explores the roots of his powerful defence of liberalism. This book is an original contribution to the debate and vital reading for research... Lees meer.

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Dugald Stewart s Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and 1... Lees meer.

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The purpose of the present study is to present the life and work and thought of a remarkable pioneering figure on the Scottish scene over the middle half broadly of the eighteenth century in their dynamic relations with that most extraordinary intellectual awakening... Lees meer.