Essays on David Hume Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment: Industry Knowledge and HumanityThe Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress, in a country previously considered to be marginal to the European intellectual scene. Yet the enlightenment was not about politeness or civic humanism, but something more basic – the making of an improved society which could compete in every way in a rapidly changing world. David Hume, writing in 1752, commented that 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain'. Collectively this volume of essays embraces many of the topics which Hume included under 'industry, knowledge and humanity': from the European Enlightenment and the Scots relation to it, to Scottish social history and its relation to religion, science and medicine. Overarching themes of what it meant to be enlightened in the eighteenth century are considered alongside more specific studies of notable figures of the period, such as Archibald Campbell,3rd Duke of Argyll, and David Hume, and the training and number of Scottish medical students. Together, the volume provides an opportunity to step back and reconsider the Scottish Enlightenment in its broader context and to consider what new directions this field of study might take. |
Contents
1 The World in which the Scottish Enlightenment Took Shape | 1 |
Patronage and the Creation of the Scottish Enlightenment | 21 |
3 How Many Scots Were Enlightened? | 39 |
4 What Did EighteenthCentury Scottish Students Read? | 49 |
David Hume 26 April 171125 August 1776 | 77 |
Part II | 103 |
7 Humes Histories | 127 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
3rd Duke aberdeen adam adam smith alexander america ancient archibald archibald Pitcairne arts better Britain British cadwallader colden cambridge cent charles charles town civil club colden colonies culture David Hume Dutch early economic Edinburgh university edition eighteenth century English essays Europe France French garden george glasgow Henry Home Highlands historians History of England Hume’s Hume’s Political Economy ideas ilay ilay’s improving included intellectual Development interest James John cairns King’s King’s college lectures literary london lord m.a. stewart marischal college matriculation medical education medical school medicine modern moral natural ofthe oxford patronage perhaps philosophy professors published R.l. Emerson religion religious Roman Royal college scots scottish Enlightenment scottish medics seventeenth century sir Robert sibbald social st andrews st andrews university surgeon-apothecaries surgeons taught teaching texts things thomas thought town university Press vols William write wrote