The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment
Title | The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Hutcheson Campbell |
Publisher | Edinburgh : J. Donald |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1707-76
Title | Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1707-76 PDF eBook |
Author | J. Rendall |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 1978-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349041408 |
The Scottish Enlightenment
Title | The Scottish Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Broadie |
Publisher | Birlinn |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2012-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857904981 |
The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas – men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.
The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
Title | The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Plassart |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2015-05-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107091764 |
This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.
Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment
Title | Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Alexander Stewart |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780198249665 |
This is the first volume of the series Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy. Each volume of the series is organized around a particular theme, and is cross-disciplinary in its approach. In this collection of substantial new studies in Scottish Philosophy in the age of Hutcheson andHume, close attention is given to the study of context and the use of original historical sources as a key to philosophical interpretation. The collection includes revolutionary research on Hume's early reading in science and religion and its impact on his philosophy.
Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment
Title | Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Berry |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0748673865 |
David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thought. This introductory survey offers the student a clear, accessible interpretation and synthesis of the social thought of these historically significant thinkers. Organised thematically, it takes the student through their accounts of social institutions, their critique of individualism, their methodology, their views of progress and of moral and cultural values. By taking human sociality as their premise, the book shows how they produced important analyses of historical change, politics and morality, together with an assessment of their own commercial society.
Seeking Nature's Logic
Title | Seeking Nature's Logic PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Wilson |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0271035250 |
"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.