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The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment » (New Edition)
Authors: Alexander Broadie
ISBN-13: 9780521003230, ISBN-10: 0521003237
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Alexander Broadie
Alexander Broadie is Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow. His recent publications include Why Scottish Philosophy Matters (2000) and The Scottish Enlightenment: The Historical Age of the Historical Nation (2001).
Book Synopsis
This offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement influential on western culture.
Table of Contents
| List of contributors | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Chronology of events relating to the Scottish Enlightenment | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The contexts of the Scottish Enlightenment | 9 |
| 2 | Religion and rational theology | 31 |
| 3 | The human mind and its powers | 60 |
| 4 | Anthropology: the 'original' of human nature | 79 |
| 5 | Science in the Scottish Enlightenment | 94 |
| 6 | Scepticism and common sense | 117 |
| 7 | Moral sense and the foundations of morals | 136 |
| 8 | The political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment | 157 |
| 9 | Economic Theory | 178 |
| 10 | Natural jurisprudence and the theory of justice | 205 |
| 11 | Legal theory | 222 |
| 12 | Sociality and socialisation | 243 |
| 13 | Historiography | 258 |
| 14 | Art and aesthetic theory | 280 |
| 15 | The impact on Europe | 298 |
| 16 | The impact on America: Scottish philosophy and the American founding | 316 |
| 17 | The nineteenth-century aftermath | 338 |
| Select bibliography | 351 | |
| Index | 359 |
Subjects
History
European History British History - Scotland
Nonfiction Philosophy European & American Philosophy
Nonfiction Philosophy General & Miscellaneous Philosophy
Nonfiction Philosophy Philosophical Positions & Movements
Philosophy European & American Philosophy British Philosophy
Philosophy General & Miscellaneous Philosophy Intellectual Movements
Philosophy Philosophical Positions & Movements Enlightenment
Nonfiction History European History
European History British History - ScotlandNonfiction
Philosophy European & American PhilosophyNonfiction
Philosophy General & Miscellaneous PhilosophyNonfiction
Philosophy Philosophical Positions & MovementsPhilosophy
European & American Philosophy British PhilosophyPhilosophy
General & Miscellaneous Philosophy Intellectual MovementsPhilosophy
Philosophical Positions & Movements EnlightenmentNonfiction
History European History