text The infidel and the professor : David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought
- 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
Library | Location | Status |
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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 |