Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of Scottish intellectual and cultural history. While significant research has been undertaken on philosophy in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries in Scotland, relatively little has been done on seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy. Alexander Broadie’s edited volume addresses this lacuna through a series of original chapters, most of which are accessible to a reader who has a cursory knowledge of seventeenth-century Scottish history. The focus of the volume is on philosophy as an intellectual discipline and the book discusses its development in respect to logic, epistemology, ethics, faculty psychology, politics, and jurisprudence throughout the seventeenth century. This is achieved through both overviews of subject-matter and case-studies on the thought of individual thinkers. These chapters include both well-known figures, such as Samuel Rutherford, while also bringing to fore lesser known thinkers who ought to be engaged with, such as Mark Duncan, James Dalrymple, and William Chalmers. While the book’s emphasis upon abstract ideas may give the impression that its findings are largely irrelevant to the church historian, nothing could be further from the truth. As the opening chapters by David Allan and Steven Reid explain, the undergraduate degree that every minister, lawyer, and physician (and some noblemen) studied at university was that of philosophy. Thus the teaching of philosophy, a subject of study in the aforementioned chapters and those by Giovanni Gellera, Christian Maurer, and Thomas Ahnert and Martha McGill, shaped both the worldview which was preached from the pulpit on a Sunday morning and the thought-world of significant Scottish political figures, such as Archibald Campbell and James Graham. Simultaneously, the volume demonstrates how the upheavals caused by the Reformation, the Wars of Three Kingdoms, the restoration of the monarchy and the Williamite Revolution had an impact upon the education offered by Scottish universities, leading to changes both in the curriculum and who was allowed to teach it. The exploration of this dynamic interplay between the university, philosophical ideas, and the broader historical context is one of the stand-out features of this
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{"title":"Samuel Fleischacker, Being Me Being You: Adam Smith and Empathy","authors":"Colin Heydt","doi":"10.3366/JSP.2021.0300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSP.2021.0300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41417,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scottish Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49653935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pamphilus's neglected role of narrator in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), with its twin themes of piety and world origination, is vital in appreciating the significance of the ...
{"title":"Hume's Pious Theist: Pamphilus","authors":"J. Tarrant","doi":"10.3366/JSP.2021.0296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSP.2021.0296","url":null,"abstract":"Pamphilus's neglected role of narrator in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), with its twin themes of piety and world origination, is vital in appreciating the significance of the ...","PeriodicalId":41417,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scottish Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47803768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ryan Patrick Hanley, Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life","authors":"F. Rassekh","doi":"10.3366/JSP.2021.0301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSP.2021.0301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41417,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scottish Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42355286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The importance of Adam Ferguson as part of the Scottish Enlightenment has been well established, with concentration on his social and political thought. George Turnbull has not been as well studied...
{"title":"George Turnbull, Adam Ferguson, and the Social Value of Knowledge","authors":"Alfredo Romagosa","doi":"10.3366/JSP.2021.0298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSP.2021.0298","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of Adam Ferguson as part of the Scottish Enlightenment has been well established, with concentration on his social and political thought. George Turnbull has not been as well studied...","PeriodicalId":41417,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scottish Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47426803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
How do we measure economic growth? In the eighteenth century, well before the birth of Gross Domestic Product commonly used today, looking at the sign of the balance of trade was a way to take the ...
{"title":"Population as a GDP Proxy in Adam Smith","authors":"M. Paganelli","doi":"10.3366/JSP.2021.0297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSP.2021.0297","url":null,"abstract":"How do we measure economic growth? In the eighteenth century, well before the birth of Gross Domestic Product commonly used today, looking at the sign of the balance of trade was a way to take the ...","PeriodicalId":41417,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scottish Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48727140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul Sagar, The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith","authors":"Tim Stuart-Buttle","doi":"10.3366/JSP.2021.0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSP.2021.0303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41417,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scottish Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42979709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The moral sense is at the heart of Hutcheson's system. Its prominent role in this philosopher's morals and posterior commentary eclipses the rest of the senses, but there is at least one sense that...
{"title":"Hutcheson's Contentious Sense of Honour","authors":"Bihotz Barrenechea","doi":"10.3366/JSP.2021.0299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSP.2021.0299","url":null,"abstract":"The moral sense is at the heart of Hutcheson's system. Its prominent role in this philosopher's morals and posterior commentary eclipses the rest of the senses, but there is at least one sense that...","PeriodicalId":41417,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scottish Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46973453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century ‘British Idealism’ has long been recognized by hi...
{"title":"Thomas Carlyle, Scotland's Migrant Philosophers, and Canadian Idealism, c. 1870–1914","authors":"Alexander Jordan","doi":"10.3366/JSP.2021.0289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JSP.2021.0289","url":null,"abstract":"That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century ‘British Idealism’ has long been recognized by hi...","PeriodicalId":41417,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scottish Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47728364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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