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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... write in the English language, and Adam Smith is almost certainly history's most famous theorist of commercial society. Remarkably, the two were best friends for most of their adult lives. This book follows the course of their ...
... write, and I am glad to have an opportunity to express my appreciation to some of those who helped to make it so. I must begin with a general word of thanks to Tufts University, particularly to the Department of Political Science for ...
... write as seldom and as Short as you . . .” or “I am as lazy a Correspondent as you. . . .”10 Smith also published only two books, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations. We have a set of essays that his executors ...
... write essays on a huge range of subjects, from politics to polygamy and from economics to eloquence, as well as several works on religion and a monumental History of England. Indeed, Hume was regarded for much of his lifetime and for ...
... write points in multiple directions. On the one hand, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments Smith periodically invokes the idea of a providential order, and he generally describes the religious impulse in fairly sympathetic terms. Far more ...
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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