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The infidel and the professor : David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought

text The infidel and the professor : David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought

Rasmussen, Dennis C. (Dennis Carl)

Summary: "David 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 to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smit... Read more

Contents: Introduction: Dearest friends -- The cheerful skeptic (1711-1749) -- Encountering Hume (1723-1749) -- A budding friendship (1750-1754) -- The historian and the Kirk (1754-1759) -- Theorizing the moral sentiments (1759) -- Fêted in France (1759-176... Read more

Format: text

Description: xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Publisher: Princeton University Press 2017

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East Bay Branch Library	192 RAS in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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TADL-EBB	192 RAS in Adult Non-fiction	Available

Hume, David 1711-1776 Smith, Adam 1723-1790 Philosophy, Modern 18th century Hume, David 1711-1776 Smith, Adam 1723-1790 Philosophy, Modern Hume, David 1711-1776 Smith, Adam 1723-1790 Freundschaft Philosophenschule Wirtschaftstheorie

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