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Author:   Ruth Savage
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.624kg
ISBN:  

9780199227044

ISBN 10:   0199227047
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   26 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Ruth Savage: INTRODUCTION 1: Giovanni Tarantino: MARTIN CLIFFORD AND HIS TREATISE OF HUMANE REASON (1674): A EUROPE-WIDE DEBATE 2: Isabel Rivers: SCOUGAL'S THE LIFE OF GOD IN THE SOUL OF MAN: THE FORTUNES OF A BOOK, 1676-1830 3: Victor Nuovo: LOCKE'S PROOF OF THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE 4: Laurent Jaffro: TOLAND AND THE MORAL TEACHING OF THE GOSPEL 5: Udo Thiel: RELIGION AND MATERIALIST METAPHYSICS 6: A. D. G. Steers: SAMUEL HALIDAY (1685-1739): TRAVELLING SCHOLAR, COURT LOBBYIST, AND NON-SUBSCRIBING DIVINE 7: James Moore: PRESBYTERIANISM AND THE RIGHT OF PRIVATE JUDGEMENT 8: Aaron Garrett: REASONING ABOUT MORALS FROM BUTLER TO HUME 9: John P. Wright: HUME ON THE ORIGIN OF 'MODERN HONOUR': A STUDY IN HUME'S PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT 10: James A. Harris: THE EARLY RECEPTION OF HUME'S THEORY OF JUSTICE 11: Moritz Baumstark: THE END OF EMPIRE AND THE DEATH OF RELIGION: A RECONSIDERATION OF HUME'S LATER POLITICAL THOUGHT 12: Knud Haakonssen: NATURAL JURISPRUDENCE AND THE IDENTITY OF THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT

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the volume is marked by a scholarly fair-mindedness and intellectual generosity * Norman Vance, Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society * The essays are all of high academic quality and are well-organised around the closely-interlocking issues of epistemology, conscience, morality and ecclesiastical and civil government. * G.M. Ditchfield, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * the volume entirely delivers the editors understated aim of contributing to critical discussion about the moderate enlightenment, and Humes uncertain position therein. * Mark Burden, Intellectual History Review * Let it be said at the outset that all of the essays are illuminating, and some are outstanding. * Alan P F Sell, Enlightenment and Dissent *

Let it be said at the outset that all of the essays are illuminating, and some are outstanding. Alan P F Sell, Enlightenment and Dissent the volume entirely delivers the editors understated aim of contributing to critical discussion about the moderate enlightenment, and Humes uncertain position therein. Mark Burden, Intellectual History Review

Author Information

Ruth Savage is a private scholar who studied Philosophy and Mathematics at Lancaster University, before completing a research degree in the history of philosophy under M. A. Stewart. She has worked as a Policy Consultant in local and central government and a number of national charities.

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