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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... Hume by Allan Ramsay (1766) Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Allan Ramsay Etching of Smith by John Kay 184 136 135 122 Smith's letter to Alexander Wedderburn on Hume's failing health and good spirits Hume's tomb, designed by Robert ...
... Humean” and even “a perfect Humean” whose “task would be to develop the implications of Hume's philosophy and extend its reach into territories he was to make his own.”37 None of this is to say, however, that Smith simply adopted Hume's ...
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought Dennis C. Rasmussen. almost obsessive refusal to ... Hume's and Smith's interests overlapped a great deal, in part because they were both interested in, well, pretty ...
... Hume's to political economy. Smith followed Hume in developing a moral theory based on human sentiments, but his version of moral sentimentalism incorporated several significant improvements on Hume's. Conversely, Hume argued for free ...
... Hume's. It is true that Smith refused to take on the responsibility of posthumously publishing Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, thereby creating some discord between the two during Hume's final days. This is often taken as ...
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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