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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... , in David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene F. Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, [1777] 1987), xlix. ** James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London: William Pickering, [1791] 1826), 104–5.
... essays on seemingly every conceivable topic, a few pamphlets on current events, and of course My Own Life. Smith was an even more negligent correspondent than Hume, apparently due in part to the fact that he found writing physically ...
... 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 many ...
... essays are deeply skeptical in character. There is no more consensus today than there was in Smith's own time as to his religious views.The conjectures range from sincere Chris- tian belief to closet atheism, though the majority of ...
... essay writing. He abandoned the dense, complex argumentation of his first work and endeavored to serve as a self-appointed “Ambassador from the Dominions of Learning to those of Conversation,” bringing the fruits of philosophy ...
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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