Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment / / David Allan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Allan, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable dual influences of humanism and Calvinism forced a discussion about the essentially moral function of scholarship and learning to the very centre of intellectual debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn led to the growth of an enlightened" community amongst the Scottish literati. As such, the text is a direct challenge to conventional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment as an unanticipated, short-lived explosion of ideas."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Reference Style -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION 'Fable and Falshood' The Historiographical Context -- PART ONE Early Modern Scholarship ISS0-1740 -- CHAPTER ONE 'Mighty Heroes in Learning' Calvinism and the Humanist Historian -- CHAPTER TWO The 'Honest Science' Reconstructing Virtue in an Historical Audience -- PART TWO The Enlightenment in Scotland 1740-1800 -- CHAPTER THREE Enlightened Identity and the Rhetoric of Intention -- CHAPTER FOUR Historians and Orators: The Rise and Fall of Scholarly Virtue -- CHAPTER FIVE 'Signs of the Times' The End of the Enlightenment? -- Bibliography -- Index