Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century EPUB

Edited by Alexander Broadie

Part of the A History of Scottish Philosophy series

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During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philosophical discourse.

Yet today Scottish philosophy of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is widely studied, but that of the seventeenth century is only now beginning to receive the attention it deserves.

This volume begins by placing the seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy in its political and religious contexts,and then investigates the writings of the philosophers in the areas of logic, metaphysics, politics, ethics, law, and religion.

It is demonstrated that in a variety of ways the Scottish Reformation impacted on the teaching of philosophy in the Scottish universities.

It is also shown that until thesecond half of the centuryâ€”and the arrival of Descartes on the Scottish philosophy curriculumâ€”the Scots were teaching and developing a form of Reformed orthodox scholastic philosophy, a philosophy that shared many features with the scholastic Catholic philosophy of the medieval period.

By the early eighteenth century Scotland was well placed to give rise to the spectacular Enlightenment that then followed, and to do so in large measure on the basis of its own well-established intellectualresources.

Among the many thinkers discussed are Reformed orthodox, Episcopalian, and Catholics philosophers including George Robertson, George Middleton, John Boyd, Robert Baron, Mark Duncan, Samuel Rutherford, James Dundas (first Lord Arniston), George Mackenzie, James Dalrymple (Viscount Stair), andWilliam Chalmers.