Morality and Feeling in the Scottish Enlightenment

Economic Development in the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas as Cause and Effect

The purpose of this paper is to consider why Scottish Enlightenment thought should have generated a particular theory of economic development. We explore the particular context of the Scottish Enlightenment, focusing both on understandings of cultural difference within Scotland, and the particular content of Gaelic culture, as influencing the character of Scottish Enlightenment thought. The spe...

Scottish Enlightenment and Public Governance of the Economic System

Case of morality; a survey of common views

Such criteria as life, human gene, ethical agency, perception and feeling, social or biological relationships, and a combination of them form the basis on which one can speak about case of morality. The views, being based upon man or beings other than man or emphasizing essential values have sought to defend themselves. By essential value is publicly meant non instrumental and independent value...

Comparative Study of Aquinas and Kant‘s Narration of Ethics and Theology

Since Kant is a son of his time, his thought is originally rooted in the Enlightenment. The distinction between theoretical and practical reason, formal and material conscientiousness, authentic and doctrinal theodicy, sincerity and falsehood, and finally, historical and moral faith religion, are implications of the court held by Kant for metaphysics. Meanwhile, Kantian distinction between deis...

Adam Smith's Stoicism and Self-command

With different nuances, the Stoics’ influence on Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment is generally taken for granted. The many references to the Stoics, mainly in Smith’s TMS, and the importance of this classical tradition within the Scottish Enlightenment, have led scholars to acknowledge this apparently obvious influence. However, this influence is at times more elusive than obvious. If ...