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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... John Home, both of whom traveled in the same circles as Hume and Smith; the private correspondence of a number of their acquaintances; the periodicals, book reviews, and obituaries of the day; and the anecdotes collected by Henry ...
... John Home, and the architect Robert Adam. Hume and Smith knew all of these figures personally, and they will each play a role in our story. The Scottish “literati,” as they were often dubbed, were not disaffected intellectuals at war ...
... John Home among their ranks. These individuals were all friends with Hume and Smith, although in Hume's case, in particular, this was more a testament to their mutual civility than a sign of a genuine meeting of the minds: no minister ...
... Home, thought the work too “indiscreet,” but by this point Hume professed that he could “see not what bad ... [John] Locke, and the Whigs, which all the half Philosophers of the Nation have implicitely embrac'd for near a Century; tho ...
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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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