The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern ThoughtThe story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thought |
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... David Hume* Without doubt you have read what is called the Life of David Hume, written by himself, with the letter from Dr. Adam Smith subjoined to it. Is not this an age of daring effrontery? My friend Mr. [John] Anderson . . . paid me ...
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought Dennis C. Rasmussen. and ensuring that most of his papers were burned before he died, Smith also avoided writing about himself to an unusual degree. As one scholar has ...
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought Dennis C. Rasmussen. severe—some would say repressive—doctrines and practices that had characterized the Kirk since the days of John Knox and the Reformation. Their ...
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought Dennis C. Rasmussen. almost obsessive refusal to accept anything Hume says as is—is to miss what is distinctive, and most interesting, in Smith.”39 The idea that the ...
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought Dennis C. Rasmussen. For much of the twentieth century Smith's philosophical writings were deemed to be little more than a series of footnotes to Hume's, and as an ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 Encountering Hume 17231749 | 36 |
CHAPTER 3 A Budding Friendship 17501754 | 50 |
CHAPTER 4 The Historian and the Kirk 17541759 ... | 71 |
CHAPTER 5 Theorizing the Moral Sentiments 1759 ... | 86 |
CHAPTER 6 Fêted in France 17591766 | 113 |
CHAPTER 7 Quarrel with a Wild Philosopher 17661767 ... | 133 |
CHAPTER 10 Dialoguing about Natural Religion 1776 ... | 186 |
CHAPTER 11 A Philosophers Death 1776 | 199 |
CHAPTER 12 Ten Times More Abuse 17761777 | 215 |
EPILOGUE Smiths Final Years in Edinburgh 17771790 ... | 229 |
APPENDIX Humes My Own Life and Smiths Letter from Adam Smith LLD to William Strahan Esq | 239 |
Notes on Works Cited | 253 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 309 |
CHAPTER 8 Mortally Sick at Sea 17671775 | 146 |
CHAPTER 9 Inquiring into the Wealth of Nations 1776 ... | 160 |
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