The infidel and the professor : David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought
Résumé éditeur : "David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered profe...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Sprache: | Anglais |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
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Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton university press 2017. |
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Description d'après la consultation du 28/08/2018 Titre provenant de l'écran-titre L'impression du document génère 333 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Philosophie |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The infidel and the professor, David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought, Dennis C. Rasmussen, 2017, Princeton, Princeton university press, 1 vol. (xiii-316 p.), 978-0-691-17701-4 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : dearest friends
- The cheerful skeptic (1711-1749)
- Encountering Hume (1723-1749)
- A budding friendship (1750-1754)
- The historian and the Kirk (1754-1759)
- Theorizing the moral sentiments (1759)
- Fêted in France (1759-1766)
- Quarrel with a wild philosopher (1766-1767)
- Mortally sick at sea (1767-1775)
- Inquiring into the Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Dialoguing about natural religion (1776)
- A philosopher's death (1776)
- Ten times more abuse (1776-1777)
- Smith's final years in Edinburgh (1777-1790)
- Hume's My Own Life and Smith's Letter from Adam Smith, LL. D. to William Strahan, Esq