The Scottish moralists on human nature and society
By: edited and with and introduction by Louis Schneider.
Contributors: Schneider, Louis, 1915-
Edition: 1st Phoenix ed.
Series: The heritage of sociology; A Phoenix book
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Sociology -- Scotland -- History.; Ethics -- Scotland -- History.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 287-290.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Louis Schneider; title: On feeling and association ; Some limitations of reason ; Of the idea of necessary connection / David Hume; title: Instinct and the inductive principle / Thomas Reid; title: Of wonder, or of the effects of novelty / Adam Smith; title: Sensational anthropology ; Agreement and disagreement among men / Francis Hutcheson; title: Human uniformity and predictability / David Hume; title: Of the moral faculty / Dugald Stewart; title: Self-approbation, self-disapprobation and the man within the breast / Adam Smith; title: Of the principles of union among mankind ; Of the principles of society in human nature / Adam Ferguson; title: The desire of society / Dugald Stewart; title: Bees and men : instinct and the limitations of reason / Thomas Reid; title: The invisible hand / Adam Smith; title: Unintended establishments / Adam Ferguson; title: Government, unintended developments, expediency, innovation / Dugald Stewart; title: Of the influence of fortune upon the sentiments of mankind, with regard to the merit or demerit of actions / Adam Smith; title: Of the speculation concerning final causes / Dugald Stewart; title: Marriage of relatives / David Hume; title: Relationship and marriage / Francis Hutcheson; title: Of superstition and enthusiasm ; Remarks on reform, Puritanism, and liberty / David Hume; title: How the commerce of the towns contributed to the improvement of the country / Adam Smith; title: Of the political arts ; Of contract or the principle of conventional obligation / Adam Ferguson; title: Rights and duties / Thomas Reid; title: Of the origin of ambition and of the distinction of ranks ; The three great orders of society / Adam Smith; title: Of the populousness of ancient nations / David Hume; title: A great city considered in physical, moral, and political views ; The development of religious belief / Henry Home, Lord Kames; title: Examples from ancient and modern history of men living in the brutish state, without arts or civility / James Burnet, Lord Monboddo.