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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... Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq., in David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene F. Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, [1777] 1987), xlix. ** James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D ...
... Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq. 239 Notes on Works Cited 253 Notes 257 Index 309 illustrations 2.1 2.2 3.2 5.1 7.1 7.2 9.1 11.1 12.1 viii contents.
... Strahan, contemplated issuing a collection of Hume's letters, but Smith quickly thwarted the idea, fearing that ... Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq.—the public letter that provoked such an outcry. (Both of these ...
... letters to one another, and Smith's irony on the subject was just as pronounced and transparent as Hume's. It is true ... Letter to Strahan, written only a few months later, should be sufficient to gainsay the idea that he was disturbed ...
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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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