- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Plates
- References and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Kirkcaldy
- 2 Boyhood
- 3 Glasgow
- 4 The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson
- 5 Oxford
- 6 A Respectable Auditory
- 7 Lectures on the History of Philosophy and Law
- 8 Called to Glasgow University
- 9 Teacher
- 10 Publishing Scholar and Administrator
- 11 The Making of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 12 Criticism of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 13 Travelling Tutor
- 14 Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations
- 15 The American Crisis and The Wealth of Nations
- 16 Euge! Belle! Dear Mr Smith
- 17 Dialogue With a Dying Man
- 18 Settlement in Edinburgh
- 19 Economic Theorist as Commissioner of Customs
- 20 Literary Pursuits
- 21 Times of Hardship and Distress
- 22 Legacy for Legislators
- 23 The Precariousness of This Life
- 24 The Great Change
- Bibliography
- Index
The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson
The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson
- Chapter:
- (p.40) 4 The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson
- Source:
- The Life of Adam Smith
- Author(s):
Ian Simpson Ross
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Smith's university studies at Glasgow are described: in Greek, introducing him to the Stoic philosopher Epictetus; Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, including Locke's empiricism; and Euclidian geometry and Newtonian physics, which had seminal lessons for him in methodology. Above all, the inspiration of the teaching of Francis Hutcheson is assessed, who seized Smith's imagination with his teaching of ethics and economics as part of his jurisprudence course. Hutcheson's development of moral sense and benevolence theory is highlighted, as providing a kind of moral Newtonianism, offering answers in ‘new light’ or liberal theology to the ‘old light’ Calvinist stress on human depravity, and in moral philosophy to the egoistic theory of Hobbes and Mandeville. Clearly, Smith received great intellectual stimulation at Glasgow, and his ability was recognized with the award of a scholarship to Oxford in 1740.
Keywords: benevolence, Hutcheson, jurisprudence, Newtonianism, methodology
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Plates
- References and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Kirkcaldy
- 2 Boyhood
- 3 Glasgow
- 4 The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson
- 5 Oxford
- 6 A Respectable Auditory
- 7 Lectures on the History of Philosophy and Law
- 8 Called to Glasgow University
- 9 Teacher
- 10 Publishing Scholar and Administrator
- 11 The Making of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 12 Criticism of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 13 Travelling Tutor
- 14 Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations
- 15 The American Crisis and The Wealth of Nations
- 16 Euge! Belle! Dear Mr Smith
- 17 Dialogue With a Dying Man
- 18 Settlement in Edinburgh
- 19 Economic Theorist as Commissioner of Customs
- 20 Literary Pursuits
- 21 Times of Hardship and Distress
- 22 Legacy for Legislators
- 23 The Precariousness of This Life
- 24 The Great Change
- Bibliography
- Index
