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Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philosophical discourse. Yet today Scottish philosophy of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is widely studied, but that of the seventeenth century is only now beginning to receive the attention it deserves. This volume begins by placing the seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy in its political and religious contexts, and then investigates the writings of the philosophers in the areas of logic, metaphysics, politics, ethics, law, and religion. It is demonstrated that in a variety of ways the Scottish Reformation impacted on the teaching of philosophy in the Scottish universities. It is also shown that until the second half of the century—and the arrival of Descartes on the Scottish philosophy curriculum—the Scots were teaching and developing a form of Reformed orthodox scholastic philosophy, a philosophy that shared many features with the scholastic Catholic philosophy of the medieval period. By the early eighteenth century Scotland was well placed to give rise to the spectacular Enlightenment that then followed, and to do so in large measure on the basis of its own well-established intellectual resources. Among the many thinkers discussed are Reformed orthodox, Episcopalian, and Catholics philosophers including George Robertson, George Middleton, John Boyd, Robert Baron, Mark Duncan, Samuel Rutherford, James Dundas (first Lord Arniston), George Mackenzie, James Dalrymple (Viscount Stair), and William Chalmers.
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Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philosophical discourse. Yet today Scottish philosophy of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is widely studied, but that of the seventeenth century is only now beginning to receive the attention it deserves. This volume begins by placing the seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy in its political and religious contexts, and then investigates the writings of the philosophers in the areas of logic, metaphysics, politics, ethics, law, and religion. It is demonstrated that in a variety of ways the Scottish Reformation impacted on the teaching of philosophy in the Scottish universities. It is also shown that until the second half of the century—and the arrival of Descartes on the Scottish philosophy curriculum—the Scots were teaching and developing a form of Reformed orthodox scholastic philosophy, a philosophy that shared many features with the scholastic Catholic philosophy of the medieval period. By the early eighteenth century Scotland was well placed to give rise to the spectacular Enlightenment that then followed, and to do so in large measure on the basis of its own well-established intellectual resources. Among the many thinkers discussed are Reformed orthodox, Episcopalian, and Catholics philosophers including George Robertson, George Middleton, John Boyd, Robert Baron, Mark Duncan, Samuel Rutherford, James Dundas (first Lord Arniston), George Mackenzie, James Dalrymple (Viscount Stair), and William Chalmers.
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Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

by Alexander Broadie (Editor)
Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
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Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

by Alexander Broadie (Editor)

Overview

During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philosophical discourse. Yet today Scottish philosophy of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is widely studied, but that of the seventeenth century is only now beginning to receive the attention it deserves. This volume begins by placing the seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy in its political and religious contexts, and then investigates the writings of the philosophers in the areas of logic, metaphysics, politics, ethics, law, and religion. It is demonstrated that in a variety of ways the Scottish Reformation impacted on the teaching of philosophy in the Scottish universities. It is also shown that until the second half of the century—and the arrival of Descartes on the Scottish philosophy curriculum—the Scots were teaching and developing a form of Reformed orthodox scholastic philosophy, a philosophy that shared many features with the scholastic Catholic philosophy of the medieval period. By the early eighteenth century Scotland was well placed to give rise to the spectacular Enlightenment that then followed, and to do so in large measure on the basis of its own well-established intellectual resources. Among the many thinkers discussed are Reformed orthodox, Episcopalian, and Catholics philosophers including George Robertson, George Middleton, John Boyd, Robert Baron, Mark Duncan, Samuel Rutherford, James Dundas (first Lord Arniston), George Mackenzie, James Dalrymple (Viscount Stair), and William Chalmers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198769842
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/27/2020
Series: A History of Scottish Philosophy
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Alexander Broadie, University of Glasgow

Alexander Broadie is an honorary professorial research fellow at the University of Glasgow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme International Network Project '17th century Scottish philosophy' (2010-2014). In 2018 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society. His publications include A History of Scottish Philosophy (Edinburgh 2009), Agreeable Connexions: Scottish Enlightenment Links with France (Birlinn 2012), History of Universities, Volume XXIX/2 (Oxford 2017), and The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge 2019).

Table of Contents

1. Seventeenth-Century Scottish Philosophy: An Overview, Alexander Broadie2. 'For the Advancement of Religion and Learning': University and Society in Seventeenth-Century Scotland, David Allan3. On the Edge of Reason: The Scottish Universities Between Reformation and Enlightenment, 1560-1660, Steven J. Reid4. Scottish Philosophy Teachers at the French Protestant Academies c.1580-1680, Marie-Claude Tucker5. The European Republic of Letters and the Philosophy Curriculum in Scotland's Universities Around 1700, Thomas Ahnert and Martha McGill6. Reformed Scholasticism in Its Relation to Seventeenth-Century Scottish philosophy, Giovanni Gellera7. Logic and Epistemology in Seventeenth-Century Scotland, Giovanni Gellera8. Robert Baron's Metaphysica Generalis on the Nature of Judgment, Alexander Broadie9. James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, on Legal Normativity, Laurent Jaffro10. James Dundas, First Lord Arniston, and His Idea of Moral Philosophy, Alexander Broadie11. Human Nature, the Passions and the Fall: Themes from Seventeenth-Century Scottish Moral Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion, Christian Maurer12. William Chalmers (Gulielmus Camerarius): A Scottish Catholic Voice on the Best and the Worst, Alexander Broadie13. The Scholastic and Conciliar Roots of Samuel Rutherford's Political Philosophy: The Influence of Jean Gerson, Jacques Almain, and John Mair, Simon Burton
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