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Scottish philosophy of the seventeenth century was an important part of a wider European philosophical discourse. After situating such thought in its political and religious contexts, the contributors to this volume investigate the writings of a variety of Scottish thinkers in the areas of logic, metaphysics, politics, ethics, law, and religion.
List of contents
- 1: Alexander Broadie: Seventeenth-Century Scottish Philosophy: An Overview
- 2: David Allan: 'For the Advancement of Religion and Learning': University and Society in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
- 3: Steven J. Reid: On the Edge of Reason: The Scottish Universities Between Reformation and Enlightenment, 1560-1660
- 4: Marie-Claude Tucker: Scottish Philosophy Teachers at the French Protestant Academies c.1580-1680
- 5: Thomas Ahnert and Martha McGill: The European Republic of Letters and the Philosophy Curriculum in Scotland's Universities Around 1700
- 6: Giovanni Gellera: Reformed Scholasticism in Its Relation to Seventeenth-Century Scottish philosophy
- 7: Giovanni Gellera: Logic and Epistemology in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
- 8: Alexander Broadie: Robert Baron's Metaphysica Generalis on the Nature of Judgment
- 9: Laurent Jaffro: James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, on Legal Normativity
- 10: Alexander Broadie: James Dundas, First Lord Arniston, and His Idea of Moral Philosophy
- 11: Christian Maurer: Human Nature, the Passions and the Fall: Themes from Seventeenth-Century Scottish Moral Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion
- 12: Alexander Broadie: William Chalmers (Gulielmus Camerarius): A Scottish Catholic Voice on the Best and the Worst
- 13: Simon Burton: The Scholastic and Conciliar Roots of Samuel Rutherford's Political Philosophy: The Influence of Jean Gerson, Jacques Almain, and John Mair
About the author
Alexander Broadie is an honorary professorial research fellow at the University of Glasgow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme International Network Project '17th century Scottish philosophy' (2010-2014). In 2018 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society. His publications include A History of Scottish Philosophy (Edinburgh 2009), Agreeable Connexions: Scottish Enlightenment Links with France (Birlinn 2012), History of Universities, Volume XXIX/2 (Oxford 2017), and The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge 2019).
Summary
Scottish philosophy of the seventeenth century was an important part of a wider European philosophical discourse. After situating such thought in its political and religious contexts, the contributors to this volume investigate the writings of a variety of Scottish thinkers in the areas of logic, metaphysics, politics, ethics, law, and religion.
