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* 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 a ...
... Hume died as he had lived, with remarkable good humor and without religion. The most prominent account of his calm ... wrote later that year describing—even flaunting—the cheerfulness and equanimity of Hume's final days. He concluded the ...
... Hume than with others, especially in the later years of their friendship. There are a total of one hundred seventy known letters that Smith either wrote or received dating from the period between when he met Hume and Hume's death. Of ...
... Hume and Smith took rather different approaches to living and writing in this atmosphere. That Hume and Smith ... wrote.36 Nicholas Phillipson's recent biography of Smith, for instance, dubs him “a committed Humean” and even “a perfect Humean ...
... Hume says as is—is to miss what is distinctive, and most interesting, in Smith.”39 The idea that the intellectual ... wrote essays on the development of language and the history of astronomy, among other topics. When one moves beyond Book 1 ...
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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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship ... Dennis Carl Rasmussen No preview available - 2017 |