Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment / / David Allan.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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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