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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... InfIdel and the Professor david hume, adam smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought rasmussen dennis c. princeton university press princeton & oxford Copyright © 2017 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton. Title.
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... published a book that would soon change the world. While The Wealth of Nations was, in Adam Smith's own words, a “very violent attack... upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain,” it was on the whole quite well received.1 Smith ...
... published corpus, on the other hand, is vast, including not just his many philosophical treatises but also a ... published only two books, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations. We have a set of essays that his ...
... publish an anonymous review of The Theory of Moral Sentiments soon after its release. As a result of their renown during their lifetimes, moreover, many of their contemporaries recorded stories about them. One can thus find comments and ...
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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