The Infidel and the Professor : : David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought / / Dennis C. Rasmussen.
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Dearest Friends
- Chapter 1. The Cheerful Skeptic (1711– 1749)
- Chapter 2. Encountering Hume (1723– 1749)
- Chapter 3. A Budding Friendship (1750– 1754)
- Chapter 4. The Historian and the Kirk (1754– 1759)
- Chapter 5. Theorizing the Moral Sentiments (1759)
- Chapter 6. Fêted in France (1759– 1766)
- Chapter 7. Quarrel with a Wild Philosopher (1766– 1767)
- Chapter 8. Mortally Sick at Sea (1767– 1775)
- Chapter 9. Inquiring into the Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Chapter 10. Dialoguing about Natural Religion (1776)
- Chapter 11. A Philosopher’s Death (1776)
- Chapter 12. Ten Times More Abuse (1776– 1777)
- Epilogue: Smith’s Final Years in Edinburgh (1777– 1790)
- Appendix: Hume’s My Own Life and Smith’s Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq.
- Notes on Works Cited
- Notes
- Index