Religion and the science of human nature in the Scottish enlightenment /
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| Author / Creator: | Mills, R. J. W. |
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| Imprint: | Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13462687 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Religion and Precursors to the Scottish "Science of Man"
- References
- 2 Religion and the Start of the Science of Human Nature: Campbell, Turnbull and Hume
- George Turnbull on Religion and the "Moral Anatomy" of the Mind
- Archibald Campbell on Mythography and the Science of Man
- David Hume's Treatise and the "Science of Man"
- References
- 3 David Hume and the Emptiness of Natural Religion
- Religion, Imagination and the Passions
- The Psychology of Miracles
- Religion's Relationship with Philosophy: Past and Future
- The Practical Consequences of Hume's Study of Religion
- References
- 4 Adam Smith on Religious Psychology in Society
- The Histories of Philosophy and of Physics
- The Psychology of Religion in the Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
- Religious Sects and Social Stability in the Wealth of Nations
- The Decline and Fall of Medieval Catholicism
- References
- 5 Henry Home, Lord Kames on Mechanistic Human Nature
- Kames's Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751)
- The Sketches of the History of Man (1774) and the "Sense of Deity"
- Kames on the Improvement of Theology
- On the Character of Religious Worship
- Religion and Morality
- Allegory and Myth as Childish Fictions
- References
- 6 David Hume's "Natural History of Religion" (1757)
- Human Nature and the Lack of Universality
- The "Natural Progress" of Religion?
- References
- 7 William Robertson on Revelation and the Limits of Progress
- Robertson's Necessity of Revelation at the Time of Christ's Mission
- True Religion and the Necessity of Social Progress
- Superstition's Role in Limiting of Progress: The History of America (1777)
- The Natural Progress of Religion and the Necessity of Revelation
- References
- 8 Adam Ferguson, Stoicism and the Individual Alone
- Ferguson and the Naturalness of Religion
- Ferguson on the Link Between Religion, Happiness and Society
- The Primacy of Theism and the Power of Superstition
- References
- 9 George Campbell on Miracles and the Weakness of Hume's "Science of Man"
- References
- 10 John Gregory on Human Nature, Happiness and Religious Devotion
- Speculative Theology and Effective Affective Preaching
- Anti-Scepticism
- References
- 11 James Dunbar on Climate and Civil Religion
- References
- 12 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on Egyptian Daemons
- Monboddo's Curious "History of Man"
- Monboddo's Two Accounts of Religion
- References
- 13 The Radicalism of James Hutton
- Philosophers and the Science of Religion
- Hutton on the Natural Progress of Religion
- The Alignment of "Christianity" and Philosophy
- References
- 14 Dugald Stewart, Religion and the End of the "Science of Human Nature"
- References
- 15 Conclusion
