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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... 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, and the whole team at Princeton University Press for all of the ...
... Scotland into which they were born, in the early eighteenth century, had suffered for untold generations from poverty and disease, ignorance and superstition, incessant religious conflict and occasional military occupation. Hume himself ...
... including the innovative system of parish schools that had made Scotland one of the most literate societies in the world; the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St. Andrews, which grew to be some of the very 8 introduction.
... Scotland).28 Also crucial, surely, was the union of 1707 that created Great Britain.29 Scotland had not had a separate monarchy since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, but the merger of its parliament with England's near the outset of ...
... Scotland in 1690, while England retained its Anglican establishment.The character and practices of the Kirk were, however, to be a source of continual and often bitter conflict throughout much of the eighteenth century. During Hume'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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