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Mills, R. J. W. The Scottish Enlightenment [[electronic resource]]: Human Nature, Social Theory and Moral Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Berry. — Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 1 online resource (265 p.). — Description based upon print version of record. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2934628.pdf>.

Record create date: 5/22/2021

Subject: Enlightenment

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11 specially commissioned essays examine the Scottish Enlightenment's contributions to commercial society, the 'science of human nature' and the emergence of the modern political economy.

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction:
  • 1. Scottish Enlightenment Settings for the Discussion of the ‘Science of Man’
  • 2. The ‘Almost Wilfully Perverse’ Lord Monboddo and the Scottish Enlightenment’s Science of Human Nature
  • 3. The Rough Edges of Civilisation in the Scottish Enlightenment
  • 4. The Stickiness of Manners? The Progress of Middling Rank Manners in David Hume, Adam Smith and John Millar
  • 5. ‘The Happiest and Most Honourable Period of My Life’: Adam Smith’s Service to the University of Glasgow
  • 6. Adam Smith on Political Leadership
  • 7. Adam Smith and the Virtue of Punctuality
  • 8. Civility and Slavery: The Problematic Basis of Civilised Society in Hume’s History of England
  • 9. Hume as Forerunner of the Sociology of Emotions: The Effect of Context, Comparison and Sympathy on the Genesis of Pride
  • 10. The Reception and Study of David Hume’s Economic Thought in China
  • Index

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