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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... Wealth of Nations (1776) Chapter 10 Dialoguing about Natural Religion (1776) xi xiii 18 36 50 71 86 113 133 160 186 Chapter 11 A Philosopher's Death (1776) 199 Chapter 12 Ten vii CONTENTS.
... 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 was to suffer far more opprobrium on account of a short ...
... Wealth of Nations. We have a set of essays that his executors published after his death and student notes from some courses that he taught, but the sum total is still dwarfed by Hume's output. Indeed, Smith's biographers frequently ...
... Wealth of Nations, then, it becomes clear that Hume's and Smith's interests overlapped a great deal, in part because they were both interested in, well, pretty much everything. For much of the twentieth century Smith's philosophical ...
... Wealth of Nations appeared, and it is striking how much of that work builds on Hume's insights. The second purported dichotomy between the two is similarly misleading. Hume's political thought does have its conservative aspects, 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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