Essays on hume, smith and the scottish enlightenment.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Series Editor's Introduction; Abbreviations Used in This Book; 1. The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: An Autobiographical Journey; Part I: The Scottish Enlightenment; Introduction to Part I; 2. James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; 3. James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language; 4. 'Climate' in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case; 5. Sociality and Socialisation.

6. Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment7. 'But Art itself is Natural to Man': Adam Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity; 8. Finding Space for Civil Society in the Scottish Enlightenment; Part II: David Hume; Introduction to Part II; 9. Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life; 10. Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume's Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity; 11. Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Humanity; 12. Hume's Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View.

13. Hume and Superfluous Value (or the Problem with Epictetus' Slippers)14. Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism; 15. Hume on Happiness; Part III: Adam Smith; Introduction to Part III; 16. Adam Smith's 'Considerations' on Language; 17. Smith and Science; 18. Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity; 19. Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy; 20. Adam Smith's 'Science of Human Nature'; 21. Adam Smith on Liberty 'in our present sense of the word'; Bibliography; Index.

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