Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Series Editor's Note; Introduction; Body matter; I. The Discovery of Modern Market Society; One: David Hume (1711-1776); Two: Adam Smith (1723-1790); II. Governing the Market; Three: James Steuart (1712-1780); Four: Adam Ferguson (1723-1816); III. Utopian Imagination & Radical Reforms; Five: Robert Wallace (1697-1771); Six: William Ogilvie (1736-1819); Seven: Thomas Reid (1710-1796); Back matter; Bibliography; Also available
Summary
This volume illustrates the way political and social philosophers of 18th-century Scotland tried to answer the following question: 'What is, and what ought to be, the relationship between the modern market and stable, desirable social order?' The essays belong to the second half of the century and offer a snapshot of the achievements of Scots on political and social philosophy. The Scottish Enlightenment witnessed the birth of modern social sciences. Its moral philosophers attempted to harmo ..
