The decline of common sense and the rise of scottish idealism
Author | : Gordon Graham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Gordon Graham |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Douglas McDermid |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192507079 |
The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism examines the ways in which five Scottish philosophers - Lord Kames (1696-1782), Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), and James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864) - tackled a problem which has haunted Western philosophy ever since Descartes: that of determining whether any form of perceptual realism is defensible, or whether the very idea of a material world existing independently of perception and thought is more trouble than it is worth. This century-long conversation about the relation between mind and world led these five Scots to think uncommonly hard about a host of challenging issues in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and meta-philosophy. In order to present each philosopher's views in a fair and reasonably charitable light, Douglas McDermid has tried to identify the main problems each was attempting to solve, to relate his work to that of his predecessors where possible, to describe the mistakes (real or perceived) he was particularly anxious to correct, to explain the internal logic of his position, and to discuss some of the main objections which he anticipated and tried to rebut. McDermid's hope is that even seasoned students of the realism controversy may learn something new and valuable from this exercise, if only because he has chosen to focus not on the usual suspects - Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant - but on a fresh and undervalued cast of characters.
Author | : C. B. Bow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2018-04-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191086495 |
Common sense philosophy was one of eighteenth-century Scotland's most original intellectual products. It developed as a viable alternative to modern philosophical scepticism, known as the 'Ideal Theory' or 'the way of ideas'. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of common sense philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment. Thomas Reid and David Hume feature prominently as influential authors of competing ideas in the history and philosophy of common sense. The contributors recover anticipations of Reid's version of common sense in seventeenth-century Scottish scholasticism; revaluate Reid's position in the realism versus sentimentalism dichotomy; shed new light on the nature of the 'constitution' in the anatomy of the mind; identify changes in the nature of sense perception throughout Reid's published and unpublished works; examine Reid on the non-theist implications of Hume's philosophy; show how 'polite' literature shaped James Beattie's version of common sense; reveal Hume's response to common sense philosophers; explore English criticisms of the Scottish 'school', and how Dugald Stewart's refashioning of common sense responded to a new age and the British reception of German Idealism. In recovering the ways in which Scottish common sense philosophy developed during the long eighteenth century, this volume takes an important step toward a more complete understanding of 'the Scottish philosophy' and British philosophy more broadly in the age of Enlightenment.
Author | : Charles Bradford Bow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2022-08-18 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
ISBN | : 0192865382 |
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and 1828. Stewart was a childof the Scottish Enlightenment, who inherited the Scottish philosophical tradition of teaching metaphysics as moral philosophy from the tuition of Adam Ferguson and Thomas Reid. But the Scottish Enlightenment intellectual culture of his youth changed in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Stewartsustained the Scottish school of philosophy by transforming how it was taught as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His elementary system of moral education fostered an empire of the mind in the universal pursuit of happiness. The democratization of Stewart's didacticEnlightenment--the instruction of moral improvement--in a globalizing, interconnected nineteenth-century knowledge economy is examined in this book.
Author | : George Elder Davie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : George Alexander Johnston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Selwyn Alfred Grave |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Antti Lepistö |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022677404X |
"In considering the lodestars of American neoconservative thought-among them Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, James Q. Wilson, and Francis Fukuyama-Antti Lepistö makes a compelling case for the centrality of their conception of "the common man" in accounting for the enduring power and influence of their thought. Lepistö locates the roots of this conception in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. Subsequently, the neoconservatives weaponized the ideas of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to denounce postwar liberal elites, educational authorities, and social reformers-ultimately giving rise to a defining force in American politics: the "common sense" of "the common man.""--
Author | : S. A. Grave |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : The Open Court Publishing Company |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781010249375 |
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