Essays

Essays
Author: James Beattie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1776
Genre: Classical education
ISBN:

Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment

Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Elizabeth Robinson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315463407

This book examines the influence of Hume, Reid, Smith, Hutcheson, and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy. It begins with the influence of these thinkers on Kant, then moves to an examination of the relationship between truth, freedom, and responsibility and its connection to Kant’s metaphysics and aesthetics.

Rhyming Reason

Rhyming Reason
Author: Michelle Faubert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317314328

During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on psychologist-poets who grew out of the literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas.

Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768-1800

Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768-1800
Author: Manfred Kuehn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2004-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773564047

Proponents of Scottish common-sense philosophy, especially Thomas Reid, James Oswald, and James Beattie, had substantial influence on late enlightenment German philosophy. Kuehn explores the nature and extent of that influence.

Essays

Essays
Author: James Beattie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 794
Release: 1776
Genre: Classical education
ISBN: