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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... ., 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. (London: William Pickering, [1791] 1826), 104–5.
... London, the Edinburgh University Library and the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow Library, and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. I would also like to thank my editor, Rob Tempio ...
... London].”25 The Scottish Enlightenment is now widely regarded as an intellectual golden age, the rival of Periclean Athens, Augustan Rome, and Renaissance Italy. There is even a best-selling book recounting How the Scots Invented the ...
... London in September 1737 to publish the work, which finally appeared in January 1739. Rather naïvely expecting that a long, dense, difficult philosophical tome would produce an immediate revolution in thought, Hume was bound to be ...
... London to serve as a tutor to the “mad”Marquess of Annandale, who was declared legally insane a few years after Hume left his employ. He was dismissed from the tutorship after a year as a result of the machinations of the marquess's ...
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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