Man's Social Nature: A Topic of the Scottish Enlightenment in Its Historical SettingP. Lang, 1988 - 373 páginas The four leading members of the Scottish Enlightenment (Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson) not only agreed in regarding human life as essentially social life: they even shared the conviction that man's «social» (defined as altruistic or benevolent) propensities would prevail in the operation of society. Throughout their accounts of man, discussed in part one, a distinct tone of optimism is perceptible. The second part attempts to explain the predominance of this optimism among the Scottish intellectuals of the Enlightenment period. A full exposition of eighteenth-century Scottish history shows the philosophers' optimism to be in line with the climate of opinion belonging to an age of improvement. |
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Philosophical Analysis | 1 |
The Scottish Enlightenment on Mans Social Nature | 30 |
David Hume | 62 |
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Man's Social Nature: A Topic of the Scottish Enlightenment in Its Historical ... Norbert Waszek Vista de fragmentos - 1986 |
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Adam Smith and Economic Science: A Methodological Reinterpretation Jan Peil Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
The Scottish Enlightenment and Hegel’s Account of ‘Civil Society’ N. Waszek Sin vista previa disponible - 1988 |