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Wealth and Virtue: The Scottish Enlightenment at the limits of the civic tradition
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The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 120 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Civic virtue & Scottish Enlightenment.read more
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Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
TL;DR: A blind spot? The birth of an ideology clearing away the rubbish print culture nationalising religion the culture of science anatomising human nature the science of politics secularising modernising happiness from good sense to sensibility nature did the mind have a sex? education - a panacea the vulgar the pursuit of wealth reform progress the revolutionary era - "modern philosophy" lasting light as discussed by the authors.
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Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how Smith's theory can be reconciled with the Stoic principles of Adam Smith's philosophy, and how Smith appropriated Rousseau's'republican' critique of modern commercial society.
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The case for the Enlightenment : Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760
TL;DR: The case for the Enlightenment in the case of the Kingdom of Naples and Scotland is discussed in this paper, with a focus on political economy in Naples and Edinburgh 1730-1760.
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Liberty, Manners, and Politeness in Early Eighteenth-Century England
TL;DR: In the early eighteenth century, the language of politeness became a major fixture of English discourse as discussed by the authors and the term became associated with studied social behaviour of the sort inspired by and associated with princely courts.