The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment

Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction: The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment....Pages 1-27 Biographical Notes....Pages 28-36 Signs of Change....Pages 37-73 The Ideas of Francis Hutcheson....Pages 74-95 Moral Philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment: The Study of Human Nature....Pages 96-122 The Principles of ‘Natural History’....Pages 123-147 Social Institutions....Pages 148-175 Commerce and Civilisation....Pages 176-205 ‘A Centre ... of Politeness and Refinement’: Edinburgh’s Augustan Age....Pages 206-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-257