Abstract
The subject of this paper is the place of Hume in Nicholas Phillipson's
account of the Scottish Enlightenment. I begin with Phillipson's reading
of Hume as ‘civic moralist’. I then turn to his account of Hume the
author of The History of England. And from there I proceed to the
place of Hume in his intellectual biography of Adam Smith. I conclude
with a brief description of Phillipson's understanding of Hume's place
in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment as it mutated in the late
eighteenth century and came to an end in the early nineteenth. I show
how just as Phillipson's Hume cannot be understood apart from the
Scottish Enlightenment, so also Phillipson's Scottish Enlightenment
cannot be understood without Hume
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 145-159 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | History of European Ideas |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 14 Jul 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- David Hume
- Scottish Enlightenment
- Adam Smith
- Nicholas Phillipson