| Description |
1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Religion and Civil Society ; Volume 7 |
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Religion and civil society ; Volume 7.
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| Contents |
RELIGION AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- Vol. 7: The Changing Faces of Religion in XVIIIth Century Scotland -- Edited by Raquel Lázaro and Julio Seoane; Impressum ; Foreword; Contents; I. From Commercial to Civil Society: the Role of Religion; Religion and Civil Society in the Thought of the Scottish Enlightenment -- Christopher J. Berry; I; II; III; Bibliography; Adam Smith's Views on Religion in Civil Society' -- Craig Smith; 1. Introduction; 2. Scotland; 3. Hume; 4. Voltaire; 5. Smith on Religious Factions; 6. Smith on Socialisation and Civil Society; 7. Smith on Localism; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography |
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Politics, Virtue and Commerce: The Civil Society in the Work of Adam Ferguson -- Isabel Wences1. Introduction; 2. Adam Ferguson and An Essay on the History of Civil Society; 3. Adam Ferguson and the Concept of Civil Society in History; 4. Civil Society versus Primitive, Uncivilised Society; 5. The Sociopolitical Dangers of Commercial Civil Society; 6. Proposals for Reconciling Commerce -Irreversible- with Civic Virtue -Indispensible; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; II. The Existence of God and the Social Order: Natural Religion; Natural Religion and Society in Thomas Reid -- María Elton |
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1. Introduction2. Justice and Natural Rights; 3. The Right to Property; 4. Right to the Fulfilment of Contracts; Bibliography; Hume on God and Religion -- Marta de Mendonça; 1. Introduction; 2. Hume on the Existence of God; 2. 1 The Idea of Existence; 2. 2 Hume in the DNR; 2.3 The a priori Argument for the Existence of God; 2. 4 The a posteriori Argument for the Existence of God; 3. Hume on Religion; 3. 1 True and False Religion; 3. 2 Revealed Religion; 3. 3 Natural Religion or the "Religious Hypothesis"; 4. Conclusion; Bibliography |
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The Existence of God and the Role of Religion according to Adam Smith -- Raquel Lázaro1. Introduction; 2. The Argument from Design; 3. Final Judge and Future Life to Come; 4. Natural Religion and Social Harmony; 5. Religion and Commercial Society; Bibliography; III. On the Secular Use of Religious Belief for Social and Moral Order; The Place Assigned to God by Hutcheson in a Benevolent and Human Society -- Julio Seoane; 1. The Moral Sense as the Starting-Point of the Humane; 2. Divine Harmony; 3. The Place where God appears in Hutcheson's Work; 4. A Little Excursus about Humor |
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5. The God of "Realpolitik"5. 1 Calming Our Passions; 5. 2 Forging the Civil Society; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; The Role of God in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments: Necessity or Convenience? -- María A. Carrasco; 1. The Comfort of God's Sympathy; 2. Morality and the Third Tribunal; 3. From the Sociological to the Normative Question; Bibliography; Revelation and the 'Little Society': World Religions, Marriage and Civil Society in Scottish Enlightenment Intercultural Comparison -- Nicholas Miller |
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1. Natural Sociability, Politeness, Civility, "Civil", Civilisation and Civil Law: Dissonances in Scottish Understandings of Civil Society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Enlightenment -- Scotland
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Enlightenment
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Scotland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seoane, Julio
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| ISBN |
3487421925 |
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9783487421926 |
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