Introduction: the Scottish Enlightenment in the history of ideas -- 1. Natural law in the seventeenth century -- 2. Natural law and moral realism: The civic humanist synthesis in Francis Hutcheson and George Turnbull -- 3. Between superstition and enthusiasm: David Hume's theory of justice, government, and politics -- 4. Adam Smith out of context: His theory of rights in Prussian perspective -- 5. John Millar and the science of a legislator -- 6. Thomas Reid's moral and political philosophy -- 7. Dugald Stewart and the science of a legislator -- 8. The science of a legislator in James Mackintosh's moral philosophy --9. James Mill and Scottish moral philosophy -- 10. From natural law to the rights of man: A European perspective on American debates
