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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... Edinburgh, by George Cattermole 56 Painting of the College Garden, Glasgow, by Robert Paul 57 Hume's congratulatory letter to Smith on e eory of Moral Sentiments 105 6.1 Painting of Hume by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle Portrait of Hume by ...
... 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, and the ...
... 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.
... Edinburgh University named Thomas Aikenhead was hanged for some blasphemous remarks that he had boastingly made to ... Edinburgh's preeminent literati: they were led by William Robertson and Hugh Blair and also included Adam Ferguson and ...
... Edinburgh literati, even the ministers, and the high society of Paris bestowed on him the honorific le bon David. Outside of these relatively confined circles, however, Hume's controversial views earned him plenty of fierce detractors ...
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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