Eduard Gans (1797-1839): Hegelianer - Jude - Europäer: Texte und Dokumente (Hegeliana) (German Edition)

Waszek, Norbert

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The four leading members of the Scottish Enlightenment (Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson) not only agreed in regarding human life as essentially social life: they even shared the conviction that man's «social» (defined as altruistic or benevolent) propensities would prevail in the operation of society. Throughout their accounts of man, discussed in part one, a distinct tone of optimism is perceptible. The second part attempts to explain the predominance of this optimism among the Scottish intellectuals of the Enlightenment period. A full exposition of eighteenth-century Scottish history shows the philosophers' optimism to be in line with the climate of opinion belonging to an age of improvement.

Man's social nature: A topic of the Scottish enlightenment in its historical setting (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XX, Philosophie)

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Eduard Gans (1797-1839): Hegelianer - Jude - Europäer: Texte und Dokumente (Hegeliana) (German Edition)

Man's social nature: A topic of the Scottish enlightenment in its historical setting (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XX, Philosophie)