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Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment - David Allan - Scottish History
Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment - David Allan - Scottish History
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Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment
By Stewart Cruden
Published by Edinburgh University Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. 276 pages.
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A very good clean first edition. No writing or names.
This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable dual influences of humanism and Calvinism forced a discussion about the essentially moral function of scholarship and learning to the very centre of intellectual debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn led to the growth of an "enlightened" community amongst the Scottish literati. As such, the text is a direct challenge to conventional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment as an unanticipated, short-lived explosion of ideas.
By Stewart Cruden
Published by Edinburgh University Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. 276 pages.
CONDITION
A very good clean first edition. No writing or names.
This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable dual influences of humanism and Calvinism forced a discussion about the essentially moral function of scholarship and learning to the very centre of intellectual debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn led to the growth of an "enlightened" community amongst the Scottish literati. As such, the text is a direct challenge to conventional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment as an unanticipated, short-lived explosion of ideas.
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