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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... idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. —Adam Smith on David Hume* Without doubt you have read what is called the Life of David Hume, written by himself, with the letter from Dr ...
... in learning more about the lives and ideas of these two giants of the Enlightenment, and about what is arguably the greatest of all philosophical friendships. acknowledgments T his book was an absolute joy to write, xi Preface.
... idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.”2 It was the closest that Smith ever came to openly antagonizing the devout, an act for which he would pay dearly but that he would never ...
... idea, fearing that others “would im- mediately set about rummaging the cabinets of those who had ever received a scrap of paper from him. Many things would be published not fit to see the light to the great mortification of all those ...
... ideas and works. These ideas and works will, accordingly, play a major role in our story. Given their stature and influence, it is remarkable that no book has heretofore been written on Hume and Smith's personal or intellectual ...
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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