Idea Of Commercial Society In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Idea Of Commercial Society In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Christopher J Berry
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-08
Idea Of Commercial Society In The Scottish Enlightenment written by Christopher J Berry and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, looking at key works from Adam Smith, David Hume and Adam Ferguson alongside lesser-known figures.
Social Theory Of The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Christopher Berry
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Social Theory Of The Scottish Enlightenment written by Christopher Berry and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with History categories.
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.
Adam Ferguson And The Idea Of Civil Society
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Author : Craig Smith
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-14
Adam Ferguson And The Idea Of Civil Society written by Craig Smith and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-14 with Philosophy categories.
Adam Ferguson, a friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, was among the leading Scottish Enlightenment figures who worked to develop a science of man. He created a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising. He was among the first in the English-speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society and political science. Craig Smith explores Ferguson's thought, and examines his attempt to develop a genuine moral science and its place in providing a secure basis for the virtuous education of the new elite of Hanoverian Britain. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a republican sceptical about commercial society and much closer to the mainstream of the Scottish Enlightenment and its defence of the new British commercial order.
Wealth And Virtue
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Author : Istvan Hont
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1986-01-30
Wealth And Virtue written by Istvan Hont and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-30 with Philosophy categories.
Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, moral philosophy and theoretical history came to be established. Dealing not only with major figures like Hume and Smith, there are also studies of lesser known thinkers like Andrew Fletcher, Gershom Carmichael, Lord Kames and John Millar as well as of Locke in the light of eighteenth century social theory, the intellectual culture of the University of Edinburgh in the middle of the eighteenth century and of the performance of the Scottish economy on the eve of the publication of the Wealth of Nations. While the scholarly emphasis is on the rigorous historical reconstruction of both theory and context, Wealth and Virtue directly addresses itself to modern political theorists and economists and throws light on a number of major focal points of controversy in legal and political philosophy.
The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : R. J. W. Mills
language : en
Publisher: EUP
Release Date : 2023-02-28
The Scottish Enlightenment written by R. J. W. Mills and has been published by EUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with categories.
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.
The Scottish Enlightenment And The Challenges Of Commercial Society
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Author : Rafał Lis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Scottish Enlightenment And The Challenges Of Commercial Society written by Rafał Lis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
The Rise Of Political Economy In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Tatsuya Sakamoto
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-06-27
The Rise Of Political Economy In The Scottish Enlightenment written by Tatsuya Sakamoto and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-27 with Business & Economics categories.
This collection of essays provides a comprehensive view of the economic thought of the Scottish Enlightenment. Organized as a chronological account of the rise and progress of political economy in eighteenth century Scotland, each chapter discusses the way in which the moral and economic improvement of the Scottish nation became a common concern. Contributors not only explore the economic discourses of David Hume, James Steuart and Adam Smith but also consider the neglected economic writings of Andrew Fletcher, Robert Wallace, Francis Hutcheson, William Robertson, John Millar and Dugald Stewart. This book addresses the question of how these economic writings interacted with the moral, political and historical arguments of the time and shows how contemporary issues related to the union with England, natural jurisprudence, classical republicanism and manners and civilization all contained an economic dimension. Key chapters include: The ancient modern controversy in the Scottish Enlightenment The 'Scottish Triangle' in the shaping of political economy: David Hume, Sir James Steuart and Adam Smith Civilization and history in Lord Kames and William Robertson Adam Smith in Japan This view of the origin of economic science in Britain is markedly different from traditional accounts and will be of interest to economic, political and social historians.
Essays On Hume Smith And The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Christopher J. Berry
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-10
Essays On Hume Smith And The Scottish Enlightenment written by Christopher J. Berry and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-10 with Enlightenment categories.
Upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars working specifically on the Scottish Enlightenment and early modern political and economic thought more generally.
Rethinking The Politics Of Commercial Society
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Author : Biancamaria Fontana
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1985-12-05
Rethinking The Politics Of Commercial Society written by Biancamaria Fontana and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-12-05 with Philosophy categories.
Explores the sources of modern political liberalism through a study of the Edinburgh Review, the most influential and controversial early nineteenth-century British periodical. Reveals how it served as the principal channel through which the Scottish Englightment and its doctrines of economic and political reform were popularized.
Adam Ferguson In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Iain McDaniel
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-18
Adam Ferguson In The Scottish Enlightenment written by Iain McDaniel and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-18 with History categories.
Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe’s growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression—a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson’s skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions.