on indifferentia 20
his spectator theory 20, 107
Episcopalian Church 30, 31, 58
see also religious issues
ethics see morals/ethics
Eton 167, 168, 183–4, 303n8
Euclidean geometry, AS’s study/use of 42, 92, 101
see also mathematics
Euripides 62
Eutropius: Historiae Romanae Breviarum 18
farming see agricultural economies
Ferguson, Adam 129
as Edinburgh University Professor of Natural/Moral Philosophy 81, 128
AS and 119
on Wealth of Nations 240
Ferguson family (of Raith) 15
fiction, philosophical value of 63–4, 88
see also literature
Fitzgibbon, Athol: Adam Smith’s System of Liberty … 300
Fitzmaurice, Thomas (son of Earl Shelburne) 302
AS as tutor to, at Glasgow University 166–9, 183, 188; curriculum 167
Fleischacker, S.
On Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations … 308
A Third Concept of Liberty … 300
Fleming, Rev. Thomas: ‘Parish of Kirkcaldy’ 11, 12, 288
Fletcher, Andrew 75–7
Fontana, Biancamaria: Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society … 282
Forbes, Duncan 84, 307–8
Foulis, Robert and Andrew, as printers to Glasgow University 38, 127, 131, 181, 299
their Academy of Fine Arts 127, 131
France 45, 185–6, 262, 267
economic conditions 185, 186, 187, 272–3; as an agricultural economy 186, 195, 218
Enlightenment in 150
government system 102–5, 187, 190
David Hume in 64, 169
monarchy 103–4, 185, 188–9
religious issues 186–7
AS in, with Duke of Buccleuch 183, 184, 185–9, 190–94; in Paris 184, 189, 190–94, 198–9; in Toulouse 185–9, 191
AS’s reputation in 191–3
see also French …
Franklin, Benjamin 213
free trade 129–30, 136, 178, 193, 205, 228, 231, 235, 263
Quesnay on 194–5, 205, 218
see also trade/commerce
French economists (économistes/physiocrats) 190, 192, 195, 221, 304–5
David Hume on 194, 218
AS and 193–8, 205–6, 217, 218, 219, 230, 234
see also Quesnay, François
French philosophers/philosophy 4, 7, 66, 94–5, 103–5, 186, 192, 194
on aesthetics 249
AS’s study of 60–64, 145–6
see also individual philosophers
Friday Club, Glasgow 128, 129
Gaskell, P.: A Bibliography of the Foulis Press 299
Geneva 170, 189
AS in, with Duke of Buccleuch 185, 189–90
Germany, AS in, with Duke of Buccleuch 185
Gibbon, Edward 210, 267
Gibson, John 31, 123
The History of Glasgow … 123
Glasgow 25–31, 290
city government 26, 29; Provosts 29, 40
Daniel Defoe on 25–6, 29, 30–31
economic development 25–9, 122, 123
Enlightenment in 127–30
learned societies 128–9, 298–9
pietism in 29–31
population levels 25, 26
private academies 127, 130
social life/structure 123
smugglers/smuggling 26, 27, 122
trade/commerce 25, 27–9, 122, 123–4; tobacco trade 25, 27–9, 122–3, 124, 129, 290
Glasgow Courant 120
Glasgow Literary Society 248
Glasgow University 2, 7, 26, 30, 32, 39–40, 128
academic staff 33, 34, 38, 41–2, 56, 120–22, 124, 125, 126–7, 128, 170, 171, 270, 301n30; see also individual professors
Daniel Defoe on 39
development/growth 5, 24, 32, 33, 290
Thomas Fitzmaurice at, under AS’s tutelage 166–9
Francis Hutcheson as Professor of Moral Philosophy 34, 36–8, 79, 80, 102, 124, 126, 132, 134; opposition to 37–8, 41–2; his curriculum 31–2, 34, 102
Earl of Islay (later Duke of Argyll) and 33–4, 38, 121, 122, 125, 126
Hercules Lindesay as Professor of Civil Law 125, 170, 171
management/reform 26, 31, 32, 122, 124–7, 170–71
Principals 30, 32–3, 268
printing/publishing by 38, 127
private academies sponsored by 127
religious issues 30, 31–2, 33, 37–8, 124, 126
reputation 127, 128; criticism of 130
Robert Simson as Professor of Mathematics 24, 34, 42, 167, 171
AS as student 2, 4, 18, 23, 24–5, 39–42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 50, 56
AS as Doctor of Laws 179
AS as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics 2, 4, 5, 34, 120–22, 125; controversy over 121, 281
AS as Professor of Moral Philosophy 2, 4, 5, 34, 119, 122, 130, 131–7, 166–9, 170–79; his curriculum 126, 132–3, 171–2, 175; lecturing style 134–5; John Millar on 132–3, 134–5, 136; resignation 6, 179, 182; replacement 183
AS as Rector 269
AS’s lectures on jurisprudence see jurisprudence, AS’s Glasgow University lectures
AS’s lectures on rhetoric 6
AS’s private course on rhetoric and belles-lettres 127, 132
students/student numbers 32, 127–8, 132; foreign students 170
student fees 133
Glasgow University Library 130, 171
Glassford, John 29, 124
government
Henry Home on 112
David Hume on 69, 110, 140, 179, 242
Francis Hutcheson on 43, 50, 52–4, 69, 114–15
international relations 140
AS’s theory of 69, 106–7, 111–13, 116–17, 172, 173–5, 178; in Wealth of Nations 230–35
Graham, John 128–9
W. Gray and W. Peter (Edinburgh printers) 299n9
Gregory, David 57
Grenville, William 267–8
Griswold, C.: Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment 300
Grotius, Hugo 2, 7
Haakonssen, K. 291
The Science of a Legislator … 297, 308
on Theory of Moral Sentiments 300
Hailes, Lord 204–5, 256
Hallam (Duke of Buccleuch’s tutor at Eton) 184, 303n8
Hamilton, William 87
Hamilton, Duke of 209
Harrington, James 112
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien 192
Hepburn, Miss (friend of AS) 136
Hertford, Earl of 303n25
as British Ambassador in Paris 190, 191; David Hume as his secretary 190–91, 303n25
Hobbes, Thomas 2, 7, 54, 101
on human nature 43–4
Hochstrasser, T. J. 304–5
Hodge-Podge Club, Glasgow 128
Holt, Andreas 201, 259, 261
Home, Henry (Lord Kames) (cousin of David Hume) 65, 85, 86, 94, 125, 213, 256
career 87
character 86, 87
at Edinburgh University 80
Elements of Criticism 86, 192
his ‘élèves’ (protégés) 87, 89, 125; see also AS below
Essays upon Several Subjects … 102
David Hume and 65, 86
on David Hume: Treatise … 86, 138
intellectual ideas/development 86–8, 112
James Oswald and 72, 86, 305n8
Principles of Morality and Natural Religion 86
his science of man concept 86, 88
AS and 87–8, 120, 137, 282; as his patron 72, 89, 102, 163
on Theory of Moral Sentiments 163
on Voltaire: Henriade 192
Home, John (cousin of David Hume) 119, 160
Homer 111, 181
The Honourable the Society for Improvement in the Knowledge of Agriculture 13, 78–9
Hont, Istvan 290
Jealousy of
Trade … 198, 297, 304n42, 305, 308
Hont, Istvan and M. Ignatieff (eds): Wealth and Virtue … 308
Horn, D. B.: A Short History of Edinburgh … 294
Horne, George: Letter to Adam Smith … On … David Hume 246–7
Horner, Francis 282–3
Howell, W. S. 297
human nature 43, 61, 62, 125
benevolence 48, 49–51, 52, 53, 54–5, 61–2, 149
civilizing process see civilizing process
French philosophers on 60–64, 66, 137
Thomas Hobbes on 43–4
Francis Hutcheson on 43, 45–6, 49–55, 66; on moral sense 51–2
imagination 96, 113, 157
as inquisitive 50–51, 52, 150–51
Bernard Mandeville on 47–50, 52, 66
needs 142, 147–8
propriety 92–3, 96–7, 151–2, 280
psychological analysis of 61, 63–4
Pufendorf on 43–5; Francis Hutcheson’s criticism of 43, 45–6, 53
religion and 66–7
remorse/retribution 154–6
as selfish 46–9, 50, 51, 54
Shaftesbury on 46–8
sociability 101–2, 138, 147–8, 280–81; see also sympathy below
sympathy 67–8, 70, 163, 165, 173, 282; AS on 148–54; see also sociability above
see also moral economy; science of man concept
humanists/humanism 18–19
Hume, David 2, 14, 64, 82, 88, 120, 126, 138, 140, 202, 224
on banking system/money supply 207–8, 235
character 5, 242, 244–5
correspondence 5, 184, 187–8, 198, 305n8
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 140, 163–4, 242–4; disagreement with AS on posthumous publication of 242–6
at Edinburgh University 64
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 140
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals 140
Essays Moral, Political and Literary 65, 68–9, 102–3, 111, 140, 141–4, 235
family 243, 246
financial position 71, 242, 300, 303n25
in France 64, 169, 190–91, 303n25
on French economists 194, 218
on government 69, 110, 140, 179, 242
health 241
as an historian 129, 136, 137, 140
History of England 129, 136, 137, 140, 188, 191, 242, 300
Henry Home and 65, 86
Francis Hutcheson and 65
influence/importance 275
intellectual ideas/development 108, 148, 163
Earl of Islay’s opposition to 34
on justice 70, 113, 179
on John Locke 103
on Lucian: Dialogues 245–6
on Bernard Mandeville: Fable of the Bees … 142–3, 144
on Montesquieu 102–3
My Own Life 241–2, 247–8; AS’s supplement 244–6
‘Of the Origins of Government’ 242
‘Of the Standard of Taste’ 249
‘Of Tragedy’ 249
James Oswald and 15, 65, 72, 86, 305n8
Political Discourses 137, 138, 140–41, 177, 191, 212, 242, 249
on property 108, 143, 235
religious beliefs 64, 66, 242–4, 246, 281
his science of man concept 64, 65–7, 70–71, 96, 138, 140–41, 147–8, 237, 279–82, 292–3
AS and 71, 72, 119, 126, 128, 136–7, 138, 140, 159, 179, 180, 184, 185, 187–8, 189, 191, 194, 198, 199, 201, 202, 207–8, 241, 242, 243, 296n53; as AS’s executor 209, 279
AS, his influence on 2, 25, 64–71, 89, 101, 116, 118, 119, 141, 234, 237, 249–52
AS as his literary executor 241–6, 243
AS on 138, 244–5, 281
on Theory of Moral Sentiments 160–61, 162–3, 301n7
Charles Townshend and 180
on trade/commerce 129, 137, 141–2, 143–4
Treatise on Human Nature 64–5, 66–70, 71, 126, 140, 292–3; Henry Home on 86, 138; Hume’s opinion of 65, 242; Introduction 299n8; AS’s reading of 65, 67, 292n28
on Wealth of Nations 1, 240–41
his will 241
writing style 65
death 242, 244, 253, 255, 281; his tomb 248, 257
Hundert, E. J.: The Enlightenment’s Fable … 290
Hunter, John 267
Hunter, William 210
Hutcheson, Francis 88, 290–91
Gersholm Carmichael and 43
family 53
at Glasgow University 34
as Glasgow University Professor of Moral Philosophy 34, 36–8, 79, 80, 102, 124, 126, 132, 134; opposition to 37–8, 41–2; curriculum 31–2, 34, 102
on government 43, 50, 52–4, 69, 114–15
David Hume and 65
influence/importance 42–3, 120, 121
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas … 50, 51, 52
intellectual ideas/development 43, 45–6, 49–55, 68, 69, 107, 150
Earl of Islay’s support for 34
William Leechman on 42
on Bernard Mandeville: Fable of the Bees … 49–50, 52, 146
Viscount Molesworth and 35, 36
on moral sense 51–2, 68, 69
on pneumatology (nature/existence of God) 41–2
publications 38; see also individual titles
Pufendorf, his criticism of 43, 45–6, 53
A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy 53
AS, his influence on 2, 10, 24, 35, 36, 42, 45, 49, 54–5, 101, 114, 237
A System of Moral Philosophy 53
in Ulster 34–5, 289n19
Hutton, James 3, 259
AS and 259; as AS’s executor 3, 279
Ignatieff, M.: The Needs of Strangers 300
imagination 96, 113, 157
impartial spectator see spectator theory
imperialism 3, 45, 212
anti-imperialism 213
see also Anglo-American relations
India 201, 265
see also East India Company
indifferentia
Joseph Addison on 22–3
Epicetus on 20
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations see Wealth of Nations
Invisible Hand concept 117
Ireland 236, 263, 267
Dublin 34–5
Francis Hutcheson in 34–5
Ulster 27, 34
Islay, Archibald Campbell, first Earl (third Duke of Argyll) 26, 33, 73, 78, 159, 167
Glasgow University and 33–4, 38, 121, 122, 125, 126
David Hume, his opposition to 34
Francis Hutcheson, his support for 34
AS and 120, 121
Robert Walpole and 26, 33
Jacobite rebellion, 1745 5, 72, 76, 78, 80
effects of 82–5, 86
Jardine, George, as Glasgow University Professor of Logic and Metaphysics 126–7
Jeffrey, Francis 282
Johnson, Samuel 123, 247, 259
Dictionary … 145; AS’s review of 145, 146, 299n7
AS and 210
death 274
Jones, J.: Balliol College … 292
Jones, P. 309
jurisprudence 3, 54, 71, 88, 265
causation 103, 105
Henry Home on 86
David Hume on 70, 113, 179
law, definition of 104–5
Montesquieu on 102–5, 140
purpose 106
reform of 102–5
jurisprudence, AS’s Edinburgh lectures on 72, 88, 89, 102, 105–19, 120, 296, 297
importance 119, 126
as revisionist 106–7, 111
subject matter (inferred) 89, 105–18, 172–3, 174; economic conditions 114–15, 117, 118; government 106–7, 111–13, 116–17; property 108–11; Roman law 112; trade/commerce 114–16
see also Lectures on Jurisprudence
jurisprudence, AS’s Glasgow University lectures on 4, 6, 157–8, 172–9, 182, 231
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