Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Preface x
5. Series Editor’s Introduction xii
6. Abbreviations Used in This Book xiii
7. 1 The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: An Autobiographical Journey 1
8. Part I The Scottish Enlightenment
9. Introduction to Part I 29
10. 2 James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 32
11. 3 James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language 48
12. 4 ‘Climate’ in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case 60
13. 5 Sociality and Socialisation 75
14. 6 Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment 88
15. 7 ‘But Art itself is Natural to Man’: Adam Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity 109
16. 8 Finding Space for Civil Society in the Scottish Enlightenment 124
17. Part II David Hume
18. Introduction to Part II 143
19. 9 Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life 146
20. 10 Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume’s Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity 163
21. 11 Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Humanity 184
22. 12 Hume’s Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View 208
23. 13 Hume and Superfluous Value (or the Problem with Epictetus’ Slippers) 226
24. 14 Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism 247
25. 15 Hume on Happiness 264
26. Part III Adam Smith
27. Introduction to Part III 287
28. 16 Adam Smith’s ‘Considerations’ on Language 290
29. 17 Smith and Science 303
30. 18 Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity 326
31. 19 Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy 347
32. 20 Adam Smith’s ‘Science of Human Nature’ 364
33. 21 Adam Smith on Liberty ‘in our present sense of the word’ 385
34. Bibliography 403
35. Index 444